thanks Niphlod for this it sounds really good but unfortunatly I get an empty variable when I do this. Richard i don't really understand what you like to say.
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:28:12 PM UTC+1, Niphlod wrote: > > you should join them and then do the ordering. auto-references are a nice > facility but comes with a price: you can't use them just like if your > records were in a single table to do a select or an update.... > > db(db.table.refrence == db.refrencedtable.Field).select(db.table.ALL, > orderby=db.refrencedtable.Field) > > On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:17:28 PM UTC+1, BlueShadow wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I got two Tables lets call them table and referencedtable. table has a >> field which is a reference to referenced table. Now I like to select all >> entries from table and order them by a field in the referenced table. In my >> opinion it should work like this: >> #defauft.py >> rows=db().select(db.table.ALL, orderby=db.table.reference.Field) >> >> #db.py >> >> db.define_table('refrencedtable', >> Field('Field',length=512) >> ) >> >> db.define_table('table', >> Field('Title',length=1024), >> Field('refrence',db.refrencedtable), >> Field('Test','upload') >> ) >> but when I do this I get an error that referncedtable has no Field called >> Field. >> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.