Try this:

db.table.field = Field.Virtual('alert_time', 
                lambda row: XML(str(<a calculation that generates an 
integer>) + ' hours<br/>' + str(<references a field that has type 
datetime>)))

On Sunday, 14 July 2013 17:40:28 UTC-5, Woody wrote:
>
> I have a virtual field that concatenates 2 fields like this:
>
> Field.Virtual('alert_time', 
>                 lambda row: (str(<a calculation that generates an 
> integer>) + ' hours | ' + str(<references a field that has type datetime>))
>
 

>
> The result goes into a table cell and looks something like this:  "8 hours 
> 2013-07-14 09:10:20"
>
> I want to force  line breaks so that it will look like this
>      8 hours
>   2013-07-14
>     09:10:20
>
> I tried inserting line breaks using /n or <br /> in the text like this:
>
> lambda row: (str(<a calculation that generates an integer>) + ' hours/n' 
> + str(<references a field that has type datetime>))
>
> but they printed out as string literals in the table.  How can I format 
> the text for this cell?
>

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