a, i got it, thank you so much for your detail explaination and example,
villas.
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:27 PM, villas <villa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is simply how that record id will be displayed when used in a
> foreign key.
>
> e.g.
>
> table colors:
> id: 1, name: red,
> id: 2, name: yellow,
>
> table cars:
> id: 1, descr: sport, color_id: 1
>
> When you create a form for 'cars', how would you like the color_id
> field to appear?
>
> a) a drop-down box showing id numbers 1,2
> b) a drop-down box showing red, yellow
>
> Most people would say b). Therefore they use record representation to
> enable this to happen automatically.
>
> db.define_table('colors', Field('name'), format='%(name)s')
>
>
> On May 15, 5:39 am, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I still don't understand Record Representation. Is there a plain english
> > description or, better, examples of what it actually does?
