Question

I am on the QuerySearch page looking at the Search examples and I have a few questions.

I am trying to copy the code but inserting my own values and my search does not seem to work. For instance the following example:

Find all topics that have form ColourForm? where the form field 'Shades' is 'green' or 'yellow' but not 'brown'

Searched: (lc(Shades)='green' OR lc(Shades)='yellow') AND NOT(lc(Shades) ~ 'brown')

How does this search know to look at only topics with the form ColourForm? ? How does this search even know to look only at topics with forms period?

I am trying to do the same search but with a form called TestForm? . How should my code look?

Also, I am trying to create a search that finds all topics that were created by a certain time.

Environment

-- MichaelParker - 19 Jun 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

You might find an answer in TWiki.QuerySearchPatternCookbook.

-- ArthurClemens - 20 Jun 2008

> How does this search know to look at only topics with the form ColourForm?

By using the field name in your query, you used ...

a shortcut for accessing form fields. If you use the name of a field (for example, LastName) in the query without a . before it, that is taken to mean "the value of the field named this".

-- SeanCMorgan - 22 Jun 2008