Sounds good. So even for alphabetical sorting, the right approach is to just return my data in the right order via the controller and then have the view iterate through it to build the HTML drop-down manually? If so, that is fine--just confirming best design.
On Dec 27, 2:15 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > You have to do that manually for now. > > On Dec 27, 12:10 am, Jon <jondjenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'd add one follow-up to this to (still need the first answer)... I'm > > curious to know how hard it is to express a many-to-many selection > > (e.g. check all related items that apply to this record's item) in an > > automatically built form? Or do you have to do that manually... > > > On Dec 26, 11:41 pm, Jon <jondjenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am using this in my model to achieve a drop-down selection in my > > > controller forms, hence views: > > > > db.menu_item.restaurant.requires=IS_IN_DB > > > (db,'restaurant.id','restaurant.name') > > > > However, I don't know how I can sort the results to not be > > > alphabetical, but rather, a manually assigned sort column I've > > > provided myself (or, perhaps, simply the order in which they were > > > added to the database). > > > > Any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
