This could work, but this solution is more permanent than I want.
I'd like to make it so that I could dynamically select the fields I
want to edit.  I know I can do it with SQLform but without all of the
nice features that crud provides.

Other thoughts?
thanks!
--Peter


On Oct 8, 11:30 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote:
> Try setting the fields that you do not want edited with their
> writable=False. Then using the basic {{=form}} syntax.
>
> db.tablename.fieldname.writable = False
> db.tablename.fieldname.readable = False
>
> -Thadeus
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Peter Woolf <pwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,I'm very pleased with how helpful crud is, but am having some
> > problems with the custom forms.  I have a table with multiple fields, but I
> > want to use a custom crud form to just change *one* field in this form.
> > When I try to do this with =form.custom.widget the database does not update.
> >  The only way I can get it to update is to let the user change *all* of the
> > fields.  I've made up a small example (attached) to display this.  If I
> > change the person's name, it does not work, but if I add in to the view the
> > line
> > {{=form.custom.widget.age}}
> > then the database will be updated.  Any thoughts on a workaround?  Am I
> > doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>
> > Thanks,
> > --Peter
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