Thank you both, I appreciate the help.
On Jan 2, 9:33 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > You can use the 'onvalidation' > callback:http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/7#onvalidation > > form.process(..., onvalidation=my_form_calculation) > > You can also define a custom validator for the field to calculate and > return the transformed value -- > seehttp://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/7#Custom-validators. > > Finally, if you want to do something with the submitted vars before > validation, you can access the vars in request.vars. > > Anthony > > > > On Monday, January 2, 2012 7:39:46 PM UTC-5, Adrian Edwards wrote: > > > to expand on this a bit, I tried to put the calculations before the > > if form.process().accepted: > > > but I haven't been able to figure out how to access the value entered > > by the user. > > So this may just be as simple as accessing something like > > form.custom.widget.value > > > Adrian. > > > On Jan 2, 7:35 pm, Adrian Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I have a page where a user enters in some data, and then some > > > calculations need to occur before the data is put into the database. > > > > Right now I have > > > form = SQLFORM(db.entries, entry) > > > and whatever the user enters is successfully put into db.entries. > > > So now I want to do the calculations before populating the database, > > > but not sure how. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks. > > > Adrian- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
