[pmwiki-users] FW: WikiForm - wikilist searching

Peter & Melodye Bowers pbowers at pobox.com
Wed Oct 24 13:36:36 CDT 2007


Any thoughts on selecting pages using the (:wikilist variable=value:) as
below?

 

Any thoughts on anchoring that substring search if the search is indeed
possible, as below?

 

-Peter

 

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From: Peter & Melodye Bowers [mailto:pbowers at pobox.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 10:24 PM
To: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
Cc: SentN (sentn at ccl-al.org); Peter Gmail Bowers (plbowers at gmail.com)
Subject: WikiForm - wikilist searching

 

I am thrilled with the capabilities of WikiForm - it never occurred to me
something so powerful could be implemented as simply as you have made it!
Bravo!  (I'm using it to keep a sort of database of published literature in
the Albanian language)

 

1st question: from the documentation it looks like (:wikilist
EngTitle=Wind:) should give me a list of pages where the variable "EngTitle"
contains the text "Wind".  However, no matter what variable names I put in
and no matter what values I put in I always end up with a complete list of
all pages in my WikiForm rather than some subset.  (See
www.ccl-al.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=X.X for my test-site example - I've
removed the search criteria right now because I couldn't make it work)

 

2nd question: is there any way to anchor the substring search?  In other
words EngTitle=a as I understand it would match all pages where the
"EngTitle" variable contains the letter "a".  Is there any way to anchor
that ala ^ or $ or something like that?  (For instance, one of my variables
is "type" and indicates whether the piece of literature is a Book or a
Booklet.  If I search for "Type=Book" then by my understanding it will
return BOTH "Book" and "Booklet" results when I obviously want just "Book"
in that case.)

 

-Peter



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