On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 8:40:34 AM UTC-8, Dave S wrote:
>
> In my case, either a list:string or a list:reference (tags, versus a list 
> of items that use that tag).
>
> If you do either rowu.update_record(usestage = ....) or rowt.updte_record(tag 
> = ...), then the "...." has to include the old value, or you end up with 
> only the new value?   And siimilary for 
> db(db.taggedtable.tags.contains(tag1)),update(tag= 
> ...)  and db(db.usingtable.usestage.contains(uses1)).update(usestage = 
> ... ) ?
>
>
> Thanks
> /dps
>

I see that in the rowu/rowt case, rowu.usestag and rowt.tag are Python list 
objects (or derived class instances), and that 

newuses = rowu.usestag.append(uses2)
rowu.update_record(usestag = newuses)


works.  I haven't explored farther with db(q).update(...) form yet.

/dps

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