what is a "shallow copy table"?

Alex Glaros

On Sunday, March 10, 2013 6:50:56 PM UTC-7, Cliff Kachinske wrote:
>
> I define a table so:
> db.define_table ('mytable', blah..., format='% (name) s')
>
> So as we know, grid will display the contents of the name field when 
> mytable is used as a foreign table. 
>
> But if you try to search on that field, the search only works if you 
> submit record id integers as search parameters. 
>
> Since human users don't generally know the record id or ids, this makes 
> the search function less useful than it could be. 
>
> Has anyone worked around this?  If so, can you share your solution? 
>
> Thanks,  Cliff Kachinske
>
>

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