Use as_trees orgchart = db(db.your_table_which_records_have_parents).select().as_trees()
See as_trees documentation def as_trees(self, parent_name='parent_id', children_name='children', render=False): """ returns the data as list of trees. :param parent_name: the name of the field holding the reference to the parent (default parent_id). :param children_name: the name where the children of each row will be stored as a list (default children). :param render: whether we will render the fields using their represent (default False) can be a list of fields to render or True to render all. """ Then simply serialize the result into json -- 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.