Man! I think you got a nice solution for this exact problem...
I had tried with jQuery in the pass to manage this by duplicating the field that I want to bunch insert for... It was working but was breaking the workflow of form validation if I remember... Web2py has change a lot since then and I don't know if Massimo has not resolved this issue (confirmation needed!!). But I think what you suggest is pretty neath approach and easy to implement... Web2py guru?? I suspect that you want to make insertion in multiple table... You may be interrested by this : http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07?search=SQLFORM.factory#One-form-for-multiple-tables Richard On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM, ~redShadow~ <redsha...@hackzine.org> wrote: > For some reason, I need to simultaneously update a bunch of records > together in the same form. Specifically, records come from different > tables but field names sometimes overlaps, this not allowing to simply > merge the standard CRUD SQLFORMs. > > I like a feature in the Drupal Forms API that's specifically to solve > any sub-forming problem: tree placement of fields. > > So, when you create a form like this: > > group0 > element0 > element1 > group1 > element0 > element1 > element2 > group2 > element0 > element1 > > then the form generator creates fields named like: > > edit[group0][element0] > edit[group0][element1] > edit[group1][element0] > edit[group1][element1] > edit[group1][element2] > edit[group1][group2][element0] > edit[group1][group2][element1] > > grouped inside some <fieldset>s. > > When the form gets submitted, vars are split (also by taking advantage > of how php parses query strings recursively) in a structure like this: > > { > 'group0' : { > 'element0' : '..some value..', > 'element1' : '..some value..', > }, > 'group1' : { > 'element0' : '..some value..', > 'element1' : '..some value..', > 'element2' : '..some value..', > 'group2' : { > 'element0' : '..some value..', > 'element1' : '..some value..', > } > } > } > > So, extracting trees of values becomes quite easy. > > Now the question is: is there anything like this inside web2py? > I looked for it in the book and in the code, but didn't find anything.. > > -- > Samuele ~redShadow~ Santi > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > redshadow[at]hackzine.org - redshadowhack[at]gmail.com > > Blog: http://hackzine.org > > GPG Key signature: > 050D 3E9F 6E0B 44CE C008 D1FC 166C 3C7E EB26 4933 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > /me recommends: > Squadra Informatica - http://www.squadrainformatica.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > - Proud ThinkPad T-Series owner > - Registered Linux-User: #440008 > * GENTOO User since 1199142000 (2008-01-01) > * former DEBIAN SID user > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free!" > -- Linus Torvalds > >
