Maybe store a pickled dictionary? so then when you select and load the
object, you can reference its values...

Just a thought,

Mart :)

On Aug 17, 3:55 pm, apaterno <apate...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new at web2py, and I made a few applications, so, Its time to
> go for a little more complicated work, and I'm having a problem with
> multiselect fields.
>
> I'v 2 tables one table is for IPs and another table is for Hostnames.
> One IP can have more that one hostname, so, I'm using multiple=true
> for multiselect propouses. And It works really well, It stores the
> multiple hostname IDs into a text field with the format 4|6|9|1  for
> example, wich is great. but, How can I run a DB.select() for all the
> records and transform 4|6|9|1 into Its equivalent hostnames ? is there
> a way to do this with a simple (or not so) select ? Or should I run a
> subquery with an split() for each one of the rows and transform them
> back to hostnames before pass the result to the view ?
>
> Thanks in advance

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