Hi Anthony, I apologize for not giving a reply to your answer to my question.
I am talking about the second bullet in http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/6#Record-representation. - To set the db.othertable.person.represent attribute for all fields referencing this table. This means that SQLTABLE will not show references by id but will use the format preferred representation instead. This talks about SQLTABLE, which works alright. However, when I open a record in an SQLFORM, it doesn't use the format preferred representation. Kind regards, Annet.