I looked into it. What you are trying to do was never supported.
hideerror was a machanism for allowing certain custom widgets to
explicitly hide error or decide where to display them.

I say "was" because I just implemented it the way *I think* you expect
it to work. Works with custom forms as well.

if form.accepts(....,hideerror=True): ....


On Jul 27, 6:50 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Until this is resolved.... this is how I usually handle the situation.
>
> form=SQLFORM(....)
> if form.accepts(....)
>     errors,form.errors=form.errors,{}
> return dict(form=form,errors=form)
>
> Unless you do this the philosophy is that widgets handle their own
> errors and they can be customized by overriding .xml().
>
> On Jul 27, 6:00 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This has been a problem for quite some time, I just did not get around
> > to complaining about it again until now =)
>
> > If I am to use a custom form (which I almost always do). Then I can't
> > have my form elements going off and rendering their own errors now can
> > I? Not very enterprisey of SQLFORM to just assume I want to always
> > display errors automatically.
>
> > --
> > Thadeus
>
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:04 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > It is the INPUT widget that upon serialization displays the errors. I
> > > can see it may be a problem with custom widgets.
>
> > > On Jul 27, 4:42 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> There is no possible way it can. Looking through the source code, it
> > >> never passes along the extra attributes to anything. The current way
> > >> the widgets are implemented never use attributes passed to them.
>
> > >> --
> > >> Thadeus
>
> > >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:13 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > I am surprised it does not. can you help debug.
>
> > >> > Try form.errors.clear()
>
> > >> > On Jul 27, 2:29 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> >> I don't get it....
>
> > >> >> SQLFORM.factory(Field....., hideerror=True).
>
> > >> >> It doesn't do what its supposed to.
>
> > >> >> How can I make sure that none of my widgets render errors alongside
> > >> >> their own INPUT elements without rewriting everything in sqlhtml?
>
> > >> >> --
> > >> >> Thadeus

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