SID-00974: Formatted Search Results Display Hits and Search Term

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:
Category:	CategorySearch	Server OS:	Redhat Linux 7.5	Last update:	15 years ago

An odd problem that I cannot figure out (I should add that I previously worked on TWiki 4.1, and am now setting up a new TWiki in 5.0).

I am setting up a formatted search on my WebHome page to retrieve topics based on a form field - I've set this up before, so I'm pretty sure the code is correct. However, instead of just displaying the topics in a bulleted list, I'm also getting a display of the term searched, and the number of hits returned. Is this somehow related to using query search?

What I see:

Search:  Category='How To'

    * CategoriesList
    * CommentBoxesHowTo
    * HowtoUseTopicTemplates
    * TableofContentsHowTo
    * WebTopicEditTemplate 

Number of topics: 5

What I coded:

%SEARCH{ type="query" "Category='How To'" web="Newhelp" exclude="WebHome" format="   * $topic"  }%

I would like to get rid of the "Search: Category='How To'" and "Number of topics: 5"

-- PhilGochenour - 2010-09-21

Discussion and Answer

To get a proper bullet: Specify exactly three leading spaces before the asterisks: format="   * $topic"

To get rid of the noise: Add parameter nonoise="on"

You might want to narrow down on the search, meaning, you can specify a search string as the nameless parameter in %SEARCH.

Details in VarSEARCH, FormattedSearch, QuerySearch.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-09-21

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