lol, well I've been all around that. Thank you so much, works just
fine now.
Is there a quick 2-min "why that works" or somewhere you could point
me to as to what that * means/does? Apparently I'm missing out on
something important.
On Oct 29, 10:33 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> form=SQLFORM.factory(*[fields[num] for num in range(len(fields))])
>
> On Oct 29, 10:25 am, Chris S <sanders.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to get a form built where the number of Fields are
> > dynamic. I was successful with the plan form by using:
> > ------------Form Implementation------------------------
> > fields=[]
> > for item in list:
> > fields.append(item)
> > fields.append(INPUT(_name=item,requires=IS_INT_IN_RANGE
> > (0,100,error_message=('Must be an Int 0 to 100'))))
> > fields.append(INPUT(_type='submit'))
>
> > form=FORM([fields[num] for num in range(len(fields))])
> > ------------Form Implementation------------------------
>
> > I can append items to my form but the output in HTML is nasty.
> > Everything is just crammed together. I read about form.custom and was
> > going to use that approach but apparently I have to use the
> > SQLFORM.factory() to use that. Attempting the same thing in
> > SQLFORM.factory() looks like
>
> > ------------SQLFORM.factory() Implementation------------------------
> > fields.append(Field('item1'))
> > fields.append(Field('item2'))
>
> > form=SQLFORM.factory(fields[0])
> > #This works, but obviously isn't dynamic I only get the first entry.
>
> > form=SQLFORM.factory(fields[num] for num in range(len(fields)))
> > #This errors with "define_table argument is not a Field: <generator
> > object at 0x110BD7B0>"
> > ------------SQLFORM.factory() Implementation------------------------
>
> > Can anyone help me out here? I want to be able to arrange the fields
> > in HTML like I want (which I can't seem to do with just the simple
> > form), but I also want to be able to build the fields dynamically
> > which I can't seem to get working with SQLFORM.factory(). I'm sure
> > I'm missing something easy, this can't be as hard as I'm making it.
>
>
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