Question

I'm trying to execute a formatted search that finds only the first-generation children of a topic. This can easily be done with METASEARCH, but the results are messy. Can this be done? Or is there a work-around? Any help is appreciated.

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-- TWikiGuest - 10 Oct 2006

Answer

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You can do a formatted SEARCH for a named parent topic. Untested example that lists all child topics of the current topic:

Children: %SEARCH{ "META:TOPICPARENT.*\"%TOPIC%\}" type="regex" nonoise="on" format="[[$topic]]" separator=", " }%

See details in VarSEARCH and FormattedSearch.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Nov 2006

I don't see that documented in the linked topics.

-- ArthurClemens - 28 Nov 2006

A new case for the SearchPatternCookbook?

-- PeterThoeny - 29 Nov 2006

Just want to say that I've been looking for this solution, and it works. In my search string I simply substituted an actual TopicName for the %TOPIC% variable and put in some additional formatted search result syntax:

%SEARCH{ "META:TOPICPARENT.*\"BetaFeedback"\}" type="regex" nosearch="on" nototal="on" order="modified" reverse="on"  format="| [[$topic]] | $wikiusername | $date |" limit="20" }%

Thanks!

-- DianeSexton - 16 May 2007