hello one and all, here is the default behavior when i run the select statement like:
d = db.news lst = db(d.id>0).select(d.id, d.event_date, d.permission, d.type, d.title, d.body, orderby=~d.event_date) news.id news.event_date news.permission news.type news.title news.body 29 2011-03-17 Equipment Con... Tektronix Tektronix has... 28 2011-01-14 Event Research Hiat... After a long ... so you can see that i know how to change which fields display, but i would like to make news.body display say a character length of 30, and change the headers to remove the "news.". how do i do both of those customizations? thank you in advance and have a great day. lucas

