Question

I have a working formatted search that searches on form elements. On the first summary line of each of the search results is an

Warning: Can't find topic ""."" statement. On the results page it displays the 'code' of the

Warning: Can't find topic ""."" statement - which in my case is actualy better then processing the statement! What I would like to do is to be able to exclude that first line of the summary. Here is my search arg:

%SEARCH{ "[N]oteStatus.*(td..td|value\=).*%TOPIC%" casesensitive="on" regex="on" nosearch="on" order="modified" reverse="on" format="| *[[$topic]]*: $summary | $date - $rev |"}%

A sample of the results:

DownloadableTechHelp: INCLUDE{EsTopicHeader} Back to Web Desk New Downloadable Tech Help!! There are now PDF versions of our on-line help files for configureing both email and internet dial-up access. This will ...

Would love some good suggestions!

Environment

-- KarstynMcCoy - 03 Oct 2003

Answer

There is a fairly new feature of TWiki that will help you "workaround" this problem (AFAIK, you can't do it directly) — IIRC, it is called "named includes" or something like that. (It might require a plugin.)

-- RandyKramer - 04 Oct 2003

The $summary is currently hard coded, that is you cannot exclude the first line or skip some text. There are several way to get a custom summary:

1. Build your own summary, one paragraph:
   • The format contains a $pattern() that skips over the INCLUDE and grabs the first paragraph
   • Not tested example: format="| *[[$topic]]*: $pattern(.*?INCLUDE.*?}\%\s*([^\n\r]+).*) | $date - $rev |"
2. Build your own summary, number of chars:
   • Similar to the first one, but apply a pattern with a limited number of chars
   • Not tested example: format="| *[[$topic]]*: $pattern(.*?INCLUDE.*?}\%\s*([^\n\r]{162}[a-ZA-Z0-9]*|[\n\r]+).*) | $date - $rev |"
3. Use a form field for summary:
   • Add a TopicSummary form field where users add a one line summary
   • Your INCLUDE on top can show the heading and summary based on a regex SEARCH on the INCLUDINGTOPIC. Example pulling out the SupportStatus from this topic (edit to see how):
     • AnsweredQuestions
   • Your SEARCH that builds the index pulls out the TopicSummary form field: format="| *[[$topic]]*: $formfield(TopicSummary) | $date - $rev |"

-- PeterThoeny - 08 Oct 2003

TWikiBetaRelease2004x10x30 has some more control over the summary format to exclude/expand TWikiVariables. See latest FormattedSearch docs.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Feb 2005