Question

using this example in
Model:

db.define_table('person', 
    Field('name'), 
    format='%(name)s')

db.define_table('dog',
    Field('name'),
    Field('owner'), db.person)

Controller:

def list():
    dog_list = db().select(db.dog.ALL)
    return dict(dog_list=dog_list)

View:

{{for item in dog_list:}}
 ...
{{=item.name}} {{=item.owner}}
...
{{pass}}

Result sample:

Dogname1 1
Dogname2 2
Dogname3 1

How can I show in my view the owner’s name and not their id?

I’m need my own table and I can’t use SQLTABLE or another grid-table solution for this…

Thanks in advance.

Christian

Answer 1

You can do a recursive select via {{=item.owner.name}}, but that will do a separate query for each record. For efficiency, you might instead want to do a join.