I can confirm the problem and I opened a ticket:

https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=1692

On Thursday, 19 September 2013 03:49:35 UTC-5, hiro wrote:
>
> In the book I read:
>
> *Showing virtual fields in SQLFORM.grid and smartgrid*
> In recent versions of web2py, virtual fields are shown in grids like 
> normal fields: either shown alongside all other fields by default, or by 
> including them in the fields argument. However, virtual fields are not 
> sortable.
>
> However, if i use the welcome app and define:
>
> db.define_table('entity',
>     Field('entity_name', 'string'),
>     Field('slogan', 'string'),
>     Field.Virtual('slogan2', lambda row: row.entity.slogan+', it is 
> really the best.')
> )
>
> and then create a grid:
>
> def index():
>     my_grid = SQLFORM.grid(db.entity)
>     return locals()
>
> Reading the book I expect this to work. However I get the error 'Query 
> Not Supported: no such column: entity.slogan2' in the smartgrid.
>
> Massimo, is this related to to the same bug I asked about yesterday? (I 
> have not yet updated my web2py to trunk, but did not find anything about 
> this issue in the tracker.)
>
> One solution might be to change the Virtual Fiels to computed fields.
>
> A big hug to all web2py contributors!
>
> Edit: Using stable version of 2.6.4
>

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