You can do something like: results = results.sort(lambda row: row.first_name)
On Sunday, 12 January 2014 22:21:03 UTC-6, Sarbjit wrote: > > As per suggestions from this > post.<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/web2py/passing$20query$20controller/web2py/meeqqMTozrQ/o_kIUeKDkZ4J>I > have solved the problem to view the grid results in a different > controller by storing the grid results in a session and in the second > controller, I am retrieving the results from session and displaying them. > > *PROBLEM :-* > > With this implantation, I am having problem using sort method on grid > results header. On using sort, I get the following URL : > > /test/default/search?keywords=&order=testdb.testname&_signature=..... > > @auth.requires_login() > def search(): > form,results = dynamic_search(db.testdb) > if form.process().accepted: > session.results = results > redirect(URL('results')) > return dict(form=form,results=results) > > @auth.requires_login() > def results(): > results = session.results > return dict(results=results) > > So my controller, starts showing all the records and search query results > are lost. > > Is there a way I can sort the grid results stored in the session. So, I am > planning to parse the URL and based on the order specified in the URL, I > can sort the results. > > Other solution could be to use "orderby" while retrieving the results from > GRID. But I feel that if I recompute the results from GRID, my selection in > the dynamic form (used to build query) would be lost and it will again end > up showing all the results. > > Please let me know what is the efficient way to handle this? > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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.