SID-01444: Can a formfield name be search or display

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Good day!

I was wondering, if a formfield value is identified and use it to search in other topics. And in that resulted topic the formfield value has a different field name, can the field name be display in the result?

thanks

-- MichaelSevero - 2012-04-12

Discussion and Answer

You can use a nested search, see example at FormattedSearch.

Alternatively, you can use the FORMFIELD variable. Lets say you search for a list of topics that have a form filed called "Team", and that field lists a topic that has a form called "Members". You can list the topic, the team field, and all members as follows:

%SEARCH{ ... format="| $topic | $formfield(Team) | $percntFORMFIELD{ \"Members\" topic=\"$formfield(Team)\" }$percnt |" }%

The % of the FORMFIELD variable is escaped wih $percnt so that it fires once per search hit.

Details in FormattedSearch, VarSEARCH, VarFORMFIELD.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-04-12

oops!

Sorry for not clarifying my question (not good in explaining hehe) I will use your example with slight difference:

i want to search for john doe . It resulted in topic A with a form "Team" and John doe is the value of or corresponds to formfield(Captain)

now..

what about if a guy search(VARsearch) for john doe without knowing his background as Captain ( $formfield(Captain) ), can guy still search for john doe and display the the "field name" that it correspond to which is Captain?

hope that is clear

thanks

-- MichaelSevero - 2012-04-12

Sorry, I misunderstood your question.

It is possible to search for "JohnDoe" in form fields, a simple search finds main page content and form data.

I am not aware of a ready made query to show which form field contains the name searched for. You can however use conditionals do do that. Untested example:

format="| $topic | Found in: $percntIF{ \" '$formfield(Captain)'='JohnDoe'\" then=\"Captain\" }$percnt $percntIF{ \" '$formfield(Lieutenant)'='JohnDoe'\" then=\"Lieutenant\" }$percnt |"

Related: QuerySearch, IfStatements, VarIF

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-04-12

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