Thanks for the response Dave, I haven't got the hang of this editor yet so I hope this doesn't appear as a total mess...
My view code... {{ line=0 }} {{=inv_lines }} {{ for item in inv_lines: }} {{ line+=1 }} <TBODY> <TR> <TD ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=50> {{ =line }} </TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=80> {{ =item.start_time.date() }} </TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=50> {{ =item.duration }} </TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=550>PAP{{ =item.person+1000 }}/ {{ = item.task_type }}/ {{ =item.title }}/ {{=item.task_status}}</TD> <TD ALIGN=RIGHT > € {{ =item.charge }} </TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER > {{ =button('edit' , 'edit_task' , (item.task.id)) }} </TD> </TR> {{ pass }} which is similar to your last example (however the <ul><LI> wrapper screws with my formatting by forcing bullet points) *The weird thing is the problem seems to be gone. * I set up some new transactions, out of sequence by datetime, like 1st/Aug... 23rd/Aug.. 7th/Aug... 15th/Aug... So these would have transaction table ids in sequence e.g. 5,6,7,8 respectively When I run the view now (with these newly created transactions) it ignores the id sequence and preserves the 'orderby=start_time'. The old transactions that I was working are still there but currently not available until I do some adjustments to let them invoice again - so I will try them again tomorrow just to see if there was something in there that I am missing. Thanks again! Peter -- 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/d/optout.