we're waiting for 2.10.4 including https://github.com/web2py/pydal/issues/135
On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 9:46:58 PM UTC+2, Jim S wrote: > > I posted in this thread > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/2i9zfAzG2s8 but posted > after it was closed. Evidently, this is fixed but I'm still not seeing my > 'formats' for foreign keys. Here are the details: > > I have this in my db.py: > > db.define_table('customer', > Field('customerId', 'id', readable=True, writable=False, label='Customer > #'), > Field('name', length=30, required=True, writable=False, > requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), > Field('city', length=30, writable=False), > Field('state', length=2, writable=False), > format='%(customerId)s - %(name)s - %(city)s, %(state)s') > > db.define_table('equip_order', > Field('id', 'id', readable=False, label='Order #'), > Field('order_type', 'reference orderType', label='Order Type', > ondelete='RESTRICT', > requires = IS_IN_DB(db(db.orderType.equipment==True), > 'orderType.id', '%(name)s', zero='..')), > Field('status', length=10, default='New', > requires=IS_IN_SET(('New', 'Submitted', 'Invoiced'))), > Field('customer', 'reference customer', label='Customer', > ondelete='RESTRICT')) > > When I display (VIEW MODE) the customer field in the equip_order table in > a custom SQLFORM.grid form using: > > {{=form.custom.widget.customer}} > > ...it displays the id of the customer, not the name. > > I thought the 'format' on the customer table definition would control > this. I know I can fix it by changing the definition of the customer field > in the equip_order table to: > > Field('customer', 'reference customer', label='Customer', > ondelete='RESTRICT', > represent=lambda x, r: '%s - %s - %s, %s' % (db.customer(x).customerId > db.customer(x).name, > db.customer(x).city, > db.customer(x).state) if x else ''), > > Should I have to do that, or should the 'format' on customer take care of > it? > > -Jim > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

