like de-normalized?
On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:41:29 PM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote:
>
> it's a table that is "close to the original", in this case with all
> columns filled directly with the representation of the eventual foreign key
> of the original one.
>
> On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:23:55 PM UTC+1, Alex Glaros wrote:
>>
>> 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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