.contains() should do that... Could you post model and controller, the issue is maybe somewhere else in your code.
Richard On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Bethke <kevin.bet...@gmail.com>wrote: > each book has one author but I want to select all Books which have Author > id=7 > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Richard Vézina < > ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Each book that refer to an Author will only has one Author what the >> problem there? >> >> You may want to aggregate the book for one author in the same cell of a >> table that is another thing that you could address in different way... Most >> probably iter over all the book for an author and build manually a table >> with web2py helpers... >> >> Richard >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:20 AM, BlueShadow <kevin.bet...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> I got two tables Books and Authors >>> Book(Name,List:Author,...) >>> each book has at least one author >>> now I want to have a list of all the books one Author has written. >>> So I came up with this line of code: >>> l=db(db.Books.Author.contains(Author.id)).select(db.Books.ALL, orderby= >>> db:Books.Name) >>> which works but it only gives me one Book per Author. >>> I got no clue why this happens I know that I have several Authors which >>> have more than one book. >>> >>> -- >>> 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 a topic in the >> Google Groups "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/bnP-qe7Nwwk/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. > -- 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.
