Ok, figured out, I think, what happen is that you use index to get record in l (that actually is a pretty bad variable name since it could be confused with 1 - ONE with some fonts)... By using an index you always get only the first row in rows because your "l" variable is a rows object that contains many row(s)... So you only get the first one each time.
You don't have to make complicated code like so... This should work better : thead = THEAD(TR(TH(Author), TH(Books))) tr = [] for Author in AL: rows = db(db.Book.Author.contains(Author.id)).select(db.Book.ALL, orderby=db.Book.Name) tr.append(TR(TD(Author.Name), TD([row.Name for row in rows]))) table = TABLE(thead, TBODY(tr)) return dict(table=table) In your view : {{=table}} Richard On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:16 AM, BlueShadow <kevin.bet...@gmail.com> wrote: > def Authors(): > AL=db().select(db.Author.ALL, orderby=db.Author.Name) > TheList=[] > for Author in AL: > l=db(db.Book.Author.contains(Author.id)).select(db.Book.ALL, > orderby=db.Book.Name) > if len(l)>0: > TheList.append([l[0]]) > else: > TheList.append([]) > return dict(AL=AL,BookList=TheList) > here is my controller funktion > and my view: > <table> > {{i=0}} > {{for Author in AL:}} > <tr> > <td>{{=Author.Name}}</td><td></td> > </tr> > {{for b in BookList[i]:}} > <tr> > <td></td><td>{{=b.Name}}</td> > </tr> > {{pass}} > {{i+=1}} > {{pass}} > </table> > its supposed to give an alphabetical list of all authors which it does. > and list all their books (only one is displayed) > > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. > -- 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/groups/opt_out.