format can be a function
db.define_table('person',Field('first_name'),Field('last_name'),
format=lambda r: r.first_name+' '+r.last_name)
where r is the record to be represented. Hope that helps.
On Sep 21, 10:51 am, Jose Hurtado <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just started using web2py a few days ago and liked it so here i am
> with my first app :)
>
> so sorry if my question have been solved, i did a few searches a
> didn't find it.
>
> My problem:
>
> I want to get a string representation of a record of a table, this
> representation can be as easy as 1 field, or could be several fields
> formatted.
>
> In the db.define_table function, i included the format parameter
> setting the representation i want for the record, but i think i can
> only use it for select/option drop-downs and in reference fields on
> another table. Another way could be to define a virtual field with the
> format i want, so i can write row.personalized_virtual_field to get
> the string representation, and use format='%
> (personalized_virtual_field)s' to avoid repeating code (the definition
> of the format).
>
> Is this the way to do? or am i a bit lost and it could be done an easy
> way?
>
> Thank you.
