Here is another tip that you may or may not fine useful. http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1979/grid-custom-search-without-specifying-a-custom-search-widget
On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:31:45 PM UTC-5, villas wrote: > Hi David > > Try these two... > > 1. In your table defs for project and proposer, make sure you add > > format='%(yourfieldname)s', > > So that Web2py knows what to show instead of 'id'. > > 2. You can use .represent in your model or controller. > db.visit.proposer_id.represent = ..... > See the book > <http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer?search=.represent#format--Record-representation> > . > > Best wishes. > -- 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.

