I'd like to know the answer to this as well - what is the preferred way. In the meantime, can you pass 'keepvalues=True' to your form.accepts() ? http://web2py.com/book/default/section/7/1
The nice thing about doing the redirect is that you're not constantly bothered with the resubmit form data prompt if you go forward then back. On Jul 16, 11:18 pm, Chris S <sanders.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've used response.flash before but I'm just not following the work > flow here. I'm sure I'm missing something easy so maybe someone can > point out what I'm missing. > > I'm using a SQLFORM.facotry to generate a form which consist of > several Boolean fields. It's built as a list of fields looking like: > fields.append(Field(name, 'boolean', label=name, \ > default=find_default(name))) > > In the view I display the various check boxes with the custom form > widgets. > > Everything works as expected when I check form.accepts I can set a > response.flash and it shows up. However, the check box does not show > the proper value until the page is reloaded. To account for this I > added a redirect at the end of the form.accepts to force a page > refresh. This worked but now response.flash doesn't show up. > > I actually accidentally fixed this when I made a typo and set > session.flash instead of response.flash as I normally did. So now I'm > left puzzled as it seems to work with the session.flash and a > redirect. > > Can someone briefly explain when response.flash vs session.flash > should be used? Additionally, does session.flash get cleared after > display or could it show back up somewhere else? > > Finally, is setting session.flash and redirecting the proper way to > use the 'flash' div and update a form for the current submission or is > there a better suggestion? > > None of this is crucial, just thought I understood this and stumble > across something I didn't even knew existed.
