Feature Proposal: Add $attachments to formatted search

Motivation

I'm surprised this isn't already present. Formatted Search needs a $attachments variable that would provide the number of attachments a topic has.

Motivation? Same as the rest of the variables. I want to see the meta data for the search results.

Description and Documentation

This value should be trivial to get... just count how many %META:FILEATTACHMENT are present.

from AddAttachmentsParamToFormat - There are 2 options, both should be considered together as they round out the existing syntax.

• META{}
  • add a topic specifier META{topic="" ""}
  • add a format specifier META{topic="" format=""} instead of the default param that does not seem to allow customisation of output
• SEARCH{"" format="$attachment(filename)"}% or similar, using a syntax that is consistent with query search.

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: VickiBrown - 06 Feb 2008

Discussion

Need to align the syntax used here with the content access syntax developed for %IF and %SEARCH{type="query". $formfield is already divergent, though it came first so it's excused.

The FormQueryPlugin uses the dollar syntax; for example: $attachments[0].name.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 06 Feb 2008

This can be worked in with ExtractAndCentralizeFormattingRefactor - in which we will be combining the format= processing code into a single re-useable module.

-- SvenDowideit - 06 Feb 2008

You might want to discern between all attachments (hidden included) and the displayed attachments (in the attachment table; hidden excluded).

-- ArthurClemens - 06 Feb 2008

See almost identical request at AddAttachmentsParamToFormat.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Mar 2008

I've moved my proposal to here

-- SvenDowideit - 18 Mar 2008

I am changing this to ParkedProposal until we find an owner.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-11-24