I usually do something similar.
Even to the extreme of my <td> have an extra column.
So My id usually looks like
id="<tablename>_<recordid>_<column>"
And in my controllers I parse this as
tablename, record_id, column = request.vars.id.split('_')
-Thadeus
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Keith Edmunds <k...@midnighthax.com> wrote:
> What I want to do: have a list of items displayed; when one is clicked,
> more detail is shown (via an Ajax call) in a defined "detail area".
>
> Problem: the web2py ajax call takes three parameters: a controller action,
> one or more field ids, and a target DIV. My controller action needs to
> identify which row has been clicked on, so I need a hidden field per row
> that holds the row number. Because all field ids need to be unique, I
> actually have to build a dynamic name for the row id (eg,
> "id=row_{{=row.number}}, name=row_{{=row.number}}"), and - even worse - my
> controller action doesn't know the name of the field passed, so it has to
> parse response.vars to find it.
>
> Web2py and Python in general are so well architected that I know there
> must be a better way. Could someone point it out, please?
>
> Thanks.
>
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