I am able to group them up using *(groupby) *e.g (*products=db().select(db.sales.ALL, orderby=db.sales.product.name, groupby=db.sales.product.name)*) but now I have a problem calculating the sum of each item's sold quantities.
On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 8:27:50 PM UTC+2 Jim S wrote: > I have done this before, but not using SQLFORM.grid > > In a nutshell > > 1. Create table tag > 2. create your table header > 3. create a temp variable last_item_name and set to None > 4. loop through all the data you're going to display > 5. in the item_name column, check if the current item name is equal to > last_item_name - if it is, put blanks in that cell, if not, put the item > name > 6. set last_item_name = current item name > > Not pretty or clever, more of a brute force way to get it to work. > > -Jim > > On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 9:56:28 AM UTC-5 Clemens wrote: > >> Have a look here: >> >> http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#groupby-having >> >> Combining this with: >> >> http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#sum-avg-min-max-and-len >> >> Is it what you need? >> >> Best regards >> Clemens >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 4:44:11 PM UTC+2 mostwanted wrote: >> >>> I have a sales database table that records items sold in a store, an >>> item can appear several times in the table having been sold several times >>> or in different days. What i wanna do is display this information in an >>> html table in a view without the item names repeating also with the sold >>> quantity summed up for every item that appears more than once, how can i >>> achieve this? >>> >>> Regards >>> >> -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/313a1e44-7044-4cd9-b603-d0659c73b04dn%40googlegroups.com.
