Question

I really like the "Results from Foo Web" header in the "standard" SEARCH results - nice title bar, Foo Web background color, nice separator.

      FormattedSearchResultsFromFooWeb         VickiBrown         24 July2006 - 11:56- NEW

      I really like the "Results from Foo Web" header...

I can't seem to figure out how to specify this if I use a formatted search. That coolo separator bar with the background color disappears.

There should be a way to specify a formatted search with explicit parameters that duplicates the default results look and feel in all ways.

Is there a way to specify this? If not, I'll file an enhancement request.

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 24 Jul 2006

Answer

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what does your current search string look like?

-- MatthewCardozo - 25 Jul 2006

I don't have a "current search string". I've been looking at the docs. I don't see options for a "formatted" search string that will provide results identical to the "unformatted" default.

-- VickiBrown - 27 Jul 2006

Sorry, but I am afraid this can not be done easily. I had a look at the code: The formats for both formatted and unformatted searches are pulled from templates - in your distribution, templates/searchformat.pattern.tmpl templates/search.pattern.tmpl, respectively, if you are using pattern skin. Unfortunately my template skills are not sufficient to understand what's going on and why they define different blocks, so this is where I gave up.... Sorry...

-- HaraldJoerg - 27 Jul 2006

You can use a FormattedSearch with header="" and format="". Here is an example, pulled from the TagMePlugin code (using table based layout, but a css based layout can be made as well) :

You can customize the header="" and format="" to fit your needs. If you want to re-use it in several places you could set a preferences variable and use it, such as format="%MY_SEARCH_FORMAT%".

-- PeterThoeny - 27 Jul 2006

Not quite what I wanted (since it doesn't use the acytual web colors) but a good place to start. Thanks.

-- VickiBrown - 10 Aug 2006

You could contribute a patch that makes colors work in headers (by expanding $percnt and other tokens in header="" parameter)

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Aug 2006

uhuh :-)

-- VickiBrown - 14 Aug 2006

could you use: VAR{"NAME" web="Web"} -- get a preference value from another web

Just happened to read this question and stumbled on that twiki variable. Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for.

-- MatthewCardozo - 31 Aug 2006

Yes, that is the idea. The code needs to be enhanced so that the SEARCH header="" expands $percnt, so that you can write $percntVAR{\"WEBBGCOLOR\" web=\"$web\"}$percnt in the header.

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Aug 2006

gotcha. could the header be formulated above the search then? It would be nice to have it in the header="" section, but this might work in the meantime.

-- MatthewCardozo - 31 Aug 2006

I just looked at your example Peter. I get where the header section would be needed now. I hadn't considered having the search check multiple webs. It would be nice to have it differentiate between each web. Doing the header before the search would only work if the search were only checking one web.

-- MatthewCardozo - 31 Aug 2006

OK, I implemented this: Bugs:Item2836

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Aug 2006