Question

I'm wondering how one might design a search that list topics created within a certain time frame, say the past 2 days. I imagine it would require some SpreadSheetPlugin magic, but even then, I'm not quite sure how to approach it. Any suggestions?

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-- LynnwoodBrown - 07 May 2006

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Ah! I tell ya, it ain't easy keeping up with the rapid pace of TWiki innovation! I had overlooked the TimeInterval feature that was added to search in DakarRelease. Combining this with a search for version 1.0 of a topic should produce what I'm looking for. I'll post the full solution when I figure it out.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 07 May 2006

OK, here we go: building upon the seach described in HowToListOnlyNewTopics and using the date="..." attibute added to VarSEARCH in DakarRelease, I came up with this:

%SEARCH{ "META:TOPICINFO.*version=.1\.1[^0-9]" regex="on" date="P2d/$today" nosearch="on" nototal="on" order="modified" reverse="on" header="| *Topic*  | *Created By*  | *Created On*  |" format="| [[$web.$topic][$topic]]  | $wikiusername  | $date  |" limit="15"  }%

-- LynnwoodBrown - 07 May 2006

Thanks for sharing! Possibly tag it, and link to it from a SupplementalDocument topic?

-- PeterThoeny - 07 May 2006

I think it could better be added to SearchPatternCookbook!

-- JosMaccabiani - 07 May 2006

Good point!

-- PeterThoeny - 07 May 2006

Thanks so much! I feel kind of silly because I couldn't find the way to use "date" field in searches, but now I can figure out with your example.

-- KimDeal - 29 Nov 2007

Well, I got excited too early. That dates in the example refer only to creation date, right? What I am trying to do is looking for topics with a form field containing dates in a time frame. So does not work for me. Ouch

-- KimDeal - 29 Nov 2007

Kim, have a look at DBCacheContrib / DBCachePlugin. This has an easy to grasp query language so that you can write something like

%DBQUERY{"createdate LATER_THAN '2006/01/01' AND createdate EARLIER_THAN '2007/01/01'"
   header="| *Topic* | *Date* |$n"
   format="| [[$web.$topic][$topic]] | $formatTime(createdate) |"
   sort="createdate"
   reverse="on"
}%

-- MichaelDaum - 29 Nov 2007