Hello Dexter, I think your are right. I will review this asap. Meanwhile, 
would you be able to open an issue with a link to this thread so we can 
more easily keep track. Thanks!.

Massimo

On Thursday, 23 October 2014 13:23:16 UTC-5, Dexter Hadley wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This is my first time posting a question, so thanks to Massimo and they 
> whole community for making web2py.  Its great!
>
> I am trying to export results from a customized full-text search using 
> SQLFORM.grid.  My backend is a Postgres db, and I successfully define 
> "search_widget" and "searchable" functions that are passed to the 
> SQLFORM.grid to do the full-text search.  It will works pretty well on the 
> web app.  However, once I click the export button, SQLFORM.grid apparently 
> recreates the query using the default SQLFORM.build_query and ignores the 
> correct query which I define in searchable.  After poking around in 
> sqlhtml.py, I found this is so because the exporter only conditions on 
> request.vars.keywords before calling  SQLFORM.build_query, and it does not 
> check for callable(searchable) which I think it should do.  In fact, I 
> fixed it by editing sqlhtml.py to force the exporter to condition on 
> (request.vars.keywords *and callable(searchable)*) before setting up the 
> rows object to export.  The code I added is in bold below (on line 2298 of 
> sqlhtml.py):
>
>                 if request.vars.keywords *and callable(searchable)*:
>                     try:
>                         #the query should be constructed using searchable 
> fields but not virtual fields
>                         sfields = reduce(lambda a, b: a + b,
>                             [[f for f in t if f.readable and not 
> isinstance(f, Field.Virtual)] for t in tables])
>                         dbset = dbset(SQLFORM.build_query(
>                             sfields, request.vars.get('keywords', '')))
>                         rows = dbset.select(left=left, orderby=orderby,
>                                             cacheable=True, 
> *selectable_columns)
>                     except Exception, e:
>                         response.flash = T('Internal Error')
>                         rows = []
>                 else:
>                     rows = dbset.select(left=left, orderby=orderby,
>                                         cacheable=True, 
> *selectable_columns)
>
> Is this a bug or is there a better way to do an export of customized 
> search results using SQLFORM.grid?  I'm using the current version of 
> everything (web2py 2.9.11, Postgres 9.3, Python 2.7.8).  Thx again,
>
> dex*
>

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