Thanks Simone,

That solves part of what I need but what is the syntax for selecting the 
current record's related records?

I tried this but it doesn't work:

dataBelongingToUserOnly = 
db(db.PartyEmailIntersection.partyID==db.PartyDefaultInfo.partyID)

thanks,

Alex

On Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:19:53 PM UTC-7, Alex Glaros wrote:
>
> What is the syntax for a full query for IS_IN_DB?
>
> In the example below, user's default email address is selected from a 
> group all users' emails in table PartyEmailIntersection.
>
> User could have several emails in the table that contains everyone's 
> emails.
>
> I only want that user's emails to appear in the drop down selection list, 
> not all emails.
>
> 1. All emails are in table Email.
>
> 2. All users are in table Party.
>
> 4. All of the above emails are associated with their users in table 
> PartyEmailIntersection.
>
> 5. PartyDefaultInfo table contains users' default email address.  So a 
> user can have many emails in PartyEmailIntersection table, but I want only 
> that user's emails to appear in the drop-down selection, when populating 
> PartyDefaultInfo table.  Do not want to see all users' emails in the 
> drop-down list.
>
> This IS_IN_DB validator works but displays a drop down of everyone's email 
> address.
>
> db.PartyDefaultInfo.defaultEMailAddressID.requires = IS_IN_DB(db, db.
> PartyEmailIntersection.id, '%(eMailAddressID)s',zero=T('choose one'))
>
>
> What is the syntax for limiting drop-down list to only the user's emails 
> (of which there are several)?
>
> thanks,
>
> Alex Glaros
>
> ## 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> db.define_table('Party', ## super-type for people and organizations
> Field('partyTypeID','reference PartyType'), 
> Field('displayName','string'))
> ## 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> db.define_table('Email', ## A single person or organization can have many 
> emails. Centralized location of all emails. Unique; no duplicates allowed.
> Field('eMailAddress','string'),
> Field('eMailTitle','string')) ##  e.g., “main email for Alex”, or “help 
> desk email address for Dept. of Motor Vehicles”
> ## 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> db.define_table('PartyEmailIntersection', ##  A single person or 
> organization can have many emails
> Field('partyID','reference Party'), 
> Field('eMailAddressID','reference Email'))
> ## 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> db.define_table('PartyDefaultInfo', 
> Field('partyID','reference Party'), 
> Field('defaultEMailAddressID','reference Email'))
> ## 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>

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