SID-00179: setting up advanced search criteria

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.4	Perl version:	N/A
Category:	CategorySearch	Server OS:	N/A	Last update:	16 years ago

Hello,

a large corporate clinet of mine wants to build a glossary system they were looking to use sharepoint but that wasnt flexible enough

what they want to do is create a set of tags / meta data to be attached to each term / article. Some free form and some drop down lists

Can this handle adding tags / meta data to articles like that and allow searched to be filtered / limited using those tags?

Thanks Steve

-- SteveWilinsky - 10 Mar 2009

Discussion and Answer

You can implemented that in two ways with TWiki.

1. Using TagMePlugin: Users tag pages, and run tag queries, such as seen at TagMeViewAllTags and Plugins.WebHome.

2. Create a TWikiForms based application where each glossary is categorized across multiple dimensions. Look at the Support forum application here, the table at the bottom has 7 fields. You can create custom queries with a SL-like language (QuerySearch) or a RegularExpression search. See example query TWiki:Plugins/SearchExtensions?qs=edit;qv=4.2

Screenshot of a sample query-by-example form:

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Mar 2009

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