Choices lists in List views. (was Re: A question regarding Glom)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:33 +1200, George Pollard wrote:
> After having discovered Glom, I'm having great fun exploring with it :)
> However, I am trying to do something I'm not quite sure is possible...
>
> Say I have a table with a field that is linked to another table:
>
> Table:Foo[..,skill_id] --> Table:Skills [skill_id,name]
>
> I have set it up so when selecting a value for the skill_id it will show
> you the skill_id from the Skills table and also the name of the skill.
>
> However, once you have selected a skill, by clicking on the name of the
> one you want, a number is entered into the table. This is fine for the
> Details view, because it still comes up with "0 Running", for instance,
> but from the List view you can't tell at a glance what the name of the
> skill is as you are only presented with a number. Is there a way to get
> Glom to put the name into this field for presentation rather than just a
> number?

Can't you just put the name field into the list view. At the moment,
there's no way to hide the ID fields, and I would not be too
enthusiastic about doing that.

> Thanks in advance (and for all the great work you've done already)
> - porges

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