Question

I want to perform a formatted search, which displays results as a list of all topic names of the first generation of a known topic (lets call it ParTop) i.e. only topics that have ParTop as their immediate parent. I want to further limit the search using form fields.

METASEARCH will list all children of a topic, but doesn't allow me to put further critia on the search. Putting the metasearch in a search doesn't work.

e.g.

%METASEARCH{ topic="DjfParent" type="parent"}% 

returns a list of children, but no way to limit result further

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%SEARCH{ "DocTeam.*value\=.*ATeam;DocType.*value\=.*Rir;DocStatus.*value\=.*Active" regex="on" casesensitive="on" nototal="on" nosearch="on" format="   * $topic" }%

returns a list of all topics meeting form criteria, but all children etc

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%SEARCH{ "DocTeam.*value\=.*ATeam;DocStatus.*value\=.*Active" regex="on" casesensitive="on" nototal="on" nosearch="on" format=" $percnt%METASEARCH{ topic=\"DjfParent\" type=\"parent\"} $nop% "}%

is the kind of query i think i need to do, but that just returns

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Environment

-- DavidFerrington - 05 Jan 2007

Answer

I used something like that, this list the first children. and a summare f.e.

%SEARCH{"META:TOPICPARENT.*%TOPIC%" format="   * $topic $summary" nosearch="on" nototal="on" regex="on" header="$n"}%

-- MathiasKrueger - 05 Jan 2007

This AND search should work:

%SEARCH{ "META\:TOPICPARENT.*\"DjfParent\";DocTeam.*value\=.*ATeam;DocStatus.*value\=.*Active" regex="on" casesensitive="on" nototal="on" nosearch="on" format="   * $topic" }%

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Jan 2007

Thanks very much Peter, that works very well - having looked up META:TOPICPARENT I now understand how this works - will this work for some time - I assume so.

-- DavidFerrington - 08 Jan 2007

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