#or
'records' => \@records, #instead of search params
+ #instead of the primary key... only for special cases
+ 'value_col' => 'columnname',
+
#basic params controlling the resulting <SELECT>
'pre_options' => [ 'value' => 'option' ], #before normal options
'empty_label' => '', #better specify it though, the default might change
% {
% my $recvalue = $record->$key();
<OPTION VALUE="<% $recvalue %>"
- <% ref($value) && $value->{$recvalue} || $value == $recvalue
+ <% ref($value) && $value->{$recvalue} || $value && $value eq $recvalue # not == because of value_col
? ' SELECTED' : ''
%>
><% $opt{'label_showkey'} ? "$recvalue: " : '' %>
my $dbdef_table = dbdef->table($opt{'table'})
or die "can't find dbdef for ". $opt{'table'}. " table\n";
-my $key = $dbdef_table->primary_key; #? $opt{'primary_key'} ||
+my $key = $opt{'value_col'} || $dbdef_table->primary_key;
my $name_col = $opt{'name_col'};