>
> Without the ability to post data to reference fields it's a problem to 
> achieve it. just posting the reference data as strings won't allow me to 
> make these filters, unless I will insert them into tables after posting to 
> the tests results table. (I think).
>

Keep in mind, a reference field references an entire record in another 
table, not just a particular string field in that table. In general, the 
referenced table may not even include a string field that contains unique 
values, so you couldn't reference a particular record simply by specifying 
a single string.

I'm not sure I completely follow your data model, but for example, is the 
f_platform field a reference to the db.t_types table (which itself contains 
an f_platform_name field)? Is it the case that you want users to be able to 
specify an f_platform_name string and have that converted to the 
appropriate record ID of the t_types table so the ID can be stored in the 
f_platform field? If so, you just need to write the code to do that:

post_params['f_platform'] = db(db.t_types.f_platform_name ==
                               post_params['f_platform']).select(db.t_types.
id).first().id

That will use the string value of f_platform to look up the record ID in 
db.t_types, and then change post_params['f_platform'] to that record ID. 
You could do something similar for any other fields that need to be looked 
up/converted.

Anthony

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