Hello Anthony,
Indeed, inserting using the web2py grid or SQLFORM does have the drop-down
with the tier name rather than the IDs. I wanted to avoid the operation of
looking up the tier_id because I thought there was a way to reference by
name. The lookup will do. Thank you for your help!
On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 6:49:41 AM UTC-5, Anthony wrote:
>
> How are you inputting records into db.metrics? If via a web2py grid or
> SQLFORM, the drop-down will have the tier names rather than the IDs (due to
> the fact that you have specified format='%(name)s'). If you need to do
> inserts programmatically outside of a form, you can just do a lookup in the
> db.tiers table:
>
> tier_id = db.tiers(name='some name')
>
> Anthony
>
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:35:43 PM UTC-4, Michael Gheith wrote:
>>
>> I have two pretty basic tables:
>>
>> db.define_table('tiers',
>> Field('name', 'string'),
>> Field('created_on', 'datetime', default=request.now),
>> format = '%(name)s')
>>
>> db.define_table('metrics',
>> Field('tier_id', 'reference tiers'),
>> Field('total_count', 'integer'),
>> Field('total_size', 'bigint'),
>> Field('created_on', 'datetime', default=request.now))
>>
>> I pre populated my tiers table with data. When I store data in my
>> metrics table, I don't know off hand the tier_id. I know the tier name
>> though. Is there a way I can use the tier name instead of the tier_id in
>> this reference?
>>
>
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