@Mattew J Watts, #Model db.define_table('person', Field('name'), Field('age'), Field('country'), format='%(name)s')
db.define_table('thing', Field('person_id,'reference preson') Field('thing_name'), Field('value'), Field('location')) #controller def import_csv(): form = FORM(DIV(LABEL('file input',_for='exampleInputFile'),INPUT(_type='file',_name='csvsheet',_id="exampleInputFile"),_class='from-group'),BUTTON('click',_type='submit',_class="btn btn-default")) if form.process().accepted: try: for i in csv.DictReader(request.vars.csvsheet.file): # db['things'].insert(person_id= db['person'].insert(**i) ,.........) a = db['person'].insert(**i) db['things'].insert(person_id=a,.........) except: form.errors.csvfile = 'Invalid file format.' return locals() Hope, this will help you! Best/ On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:51 AM Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 2:24:51 PM UTC-4, pbreit wrote: >> >> I know db.thing.insert will return the ID of the newly created record and >> am pretty sure update_or_insert does as well. I'm not exactly sure how you >> would determine if an update or insert was performed (but perhaps you do >> not need to know?). >> > > Actually, update_or_insert does *not* return the ID in case of an update. > If you need the ID, then don't use update_or_insert but instead write your > own logic (the method is fairly simple -- see > https://github.com/web2py/pydal/blob/c954d1a22a0b83d90f728a4ab2daaa954e3f16c8/pydal/objects.py#L822 > ). > > Anthony > > -- > 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. > -- 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.