The change log for 1.98.1 includes:
field.represent = lambda value,record: ....
I think that might do what you want.
Anthony
On Tuesday, August 2, 2011 12:21:11 PM UTC-4, Richard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to do that :
>
> db.table.field.represent = lambda field1, field2: do something
>
> ???
>
> If it not braking anything in the logic of web2py it could sometime be
> of so much help to solve issue like this one...
>
> I have a 1 to many relation... So table1 contain the represent of my
> records in table2... But since there is more then one record for the
> same sample number from table1 I can't do something like this :
>
> dict1 = {}
> for r in db(db[request.args(0)].id>0).select(db[request.args(0)].id,
> db[request.args(0)].sample_id):
> dict1[r.sample_id] = r.id
>
> db[request.args(0)].sample_id.represent=\
> lambda sample_id: A("%(sample)s" %db.table1[sample_id],
> \
>
> _href=URL(r=request,f='read',args=request.args(0)+'/'+str((dict1[sample_id])))
>
>
>
> But if I could do :
>
> db[request.args(0)].sample_id.represent=\
> lambda id, sample_id: A("%(sample)s"
> %db.table1[sample_id],\
>
> _href=URL(r=request,f='read',args=request.args(0)+'/'+str((id)))
>
> I want to get rid off id field column in a grid...
>
> How it sounds?
>
> Richard
