You can do that. If you set in onvalidation, the form does not pass validation and you can display the error as you like, for example in a flash
form.errors.whateverlyoulike='the error' On Dec 6, 6:22 pm, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote: > I tested out your fix, Massimo, and it works. I'm still thinking that > the validation routine should be able to set form.errors to specify an > overarching error message for the entire form, rather than for 1 field > in the form. Form.errors.fieldname is great for targeting the message > to a specific field in the form. I'm pretty sure I want my validator > to NOT do a flash message, since it is subservient to the controller > that calls it, and I want to let the controller do the flashing based > on the passed form.errors message. What do you think? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
