db.table2.field_1.requires = IS_IN_DB 
<http://localhost:8000/examples/global/vars/IS_IN_DB>(db,db.table_1.field_1,'%(field_1)s')


On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 9:20:34 AM UTC-7, LoveWeb2py wrote:
>
>
> How can I select a foreign key and represent the value? I want to 
> represent the entire group and now have to do individual queries for each 
> foreign key. Is that possible?
>
> db.define_table('table1',
>                Field('field_1'),
>                format='%(field_1)s')
>
> db.define_table('table2',
>                Field('field_1', 'reference table1'),
>                Field('field_2', 'string),
>                format='%(field_1)s')
>
> So in this example I would do data = db(db.table1).select() which returns 
> a rows object. But the reference table1 returns an integer instead of the 
> actual value stored in the field.
>
> How could I retrieve the value instead of the integer and is it possible 
> to do it in bulk? 
>

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