This is a rather old post, but it still was involved in finding a solution to a similar problem, which I came across:
Am Montag, 17. Mai 2010 11:44:20 UTC+2 schrieb Andrew Buchan: > > My question is, how do I get a read-only form to display the > Department_Name instead of the id of the referenced record? SQLFORM.factory readonly form does not display the format-string as specified in the referenced table, if in readonly mode. The following article held the answer: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/Kmb2r__HFJo/OwBhg7g4gkQJ I specified a represent attribute. According the above examples, that would look something like: Field('To_Department', type=db.department, represent=lambda id: db. department._format % db.department[id]), Perhaps this helps someone in the future. Kind regards, Mac -- 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/d/optout.
