in trunk now... IS_IN_DB(....orderby=....) Massimo
On Dec 27, 10:51 pm, Jon <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds good. So even for alphabetical sorting, the right approach is > to just return my data in the right order via the controller and then > have the view iterate through it to build the HTML drop-down manually? > If so, that is fine--just confirming best design. > > On Dec 27, 2:15 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You have to do that manually for now. > > > On Dec 27, 12:10 am, Jon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'd add one follow-up to this to (still need the first answer)... I'm > > > curious to know how hard it is to express a many-to-many selection > > > (e.g. check all related items that apply to this record's item) in an > > > automatically built form? Or do you have to do that manually... > > > > On Dec 26, 11:41 pm, Jon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am using this in my model to achieve a drop-down selection in my > > > > controller forms, hence views: > > > > > db.menu_item.restaurant.requires=IS_IN_DB > > > > (db,'restaurant.id','restaurant.name') > > > > > However, I don't know how I can sort the results to not be > > > > alphabetical, but rather, a manually assigned sort column I've > > > > provided myself (or, perhaps, simply the order in which they were > > > > added to the database). > > > > > Any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
