You probably want the sorting and no grouping:

messages = db(db.messages.toid == auth.user.id).select(db.messages.ALL, 
orderby=db.messages.fromid|~db.messages.timesent)

Denes

On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 2:35:16 PM UTC-4, Daniel wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to order messages so that the newest message from each user is 
> displayed. However when grouped by user, the oldest message is displayed 
> despite being ordered by timesent. Its like the groupby argument overrides 
> the orderby.
>
> messages = db(db.messages.toid == auth.user.id).select(db.messages.ALL, 
> orderby=~db.messages.timesent, groupby=db.messages.fromid)
>
>
> Thanks for your help
>

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