Question

I am trying to print out all the children topics under a web (and inside that topic all its children topics). I have no problem setting up Metasearch to do so, but unfortunately the only output I can get is very basic. So far as I have tried/seen there is no way to specify a format/ordering/style etc.

Anyone have any help? I currently am just appending letters and doing a %SEARCH{}% for the letters, but it seems like such a hack to me that I can't stand it

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-- JeffVance - 25 May 2005

Answer

Jeff - we must have been on the same wavelink yesterday because about the time you posted this note, I was trying to figure out the exact same thing on the TWikiIRC (see discussion here). I figured out that you can search metadata using a regular SEARCH. I just looked at the exact syntax of the metadata statement I wanted to search for (you can append url with "?raw=debug" to see metadata) and then that string in my search. Example: %SEARCH{"TOPICPARENT{name=\"FormattingMetaSearch\"}% - would find parents of current topic.

Unfortunately, I was told this morning by CrawfordCurrie that this method will probably NOT work at some unspecified future time. Hopefully, by then we'll be able to format output from METASEARCH (á la FORMATTEDSEARCH).

Hope this helps!

-- LynnwoodBrown - 26 May 2005

Hehe, seems like just as much of a hack Atleast it looks pretty though! Thanks a million!

-- JeffVance - 26 May 2005

How create a dynamic leftbar? I try search and topiclist, but I did not obtain. I tried to user the filter META:TOPICPARENT as key.

-- AndreMatos - 18 Apr 2007

How use the filter META:TOPICPARENT as filter in SEARCH?

-- AndreMatos - 18 Apr 2007