I solved my own problem. I has originally entered the name of the title as a "text" types instead of a "string" type. That was the problem.
On Jan 13, 12:41 am, Lennon <lpru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm attempting to check and see if an item title exists in the item's > database table before inputting it. I've read that GAE won't accept > the "IS_NOT_IN_DB" validation so I'm attempting to find a workaround. > I tried unique = false but that didn't seem to change anything. > Identical title names were still accepted. > > I tried using this query to see if the length = 1 : > > l = len(db(db.post_item.name == name).select()) > > The error i got back was: > > 'AppEngine does not index by: text' > > Thanks for your help and ideas, > > ~Lennon
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