Question

How can I limit the search for a text string in the children of a specific topic ina specific web?

I tried setting the topic and web variables in both the %SEARCH and the search form, and only the web variable is taken into account. DO I need to do a nested search using the parent/child relationship?

Environment

-- LyneLamoureux - 14 Dec 2004

Answer

Try this:

%SEARCH{"META.TOPICPARENT.name=\"ParentTopicName\";mysearchstring" web="Main" type="regex" scope="text"}%

Let me know if it works so I can close this topic.

-- SamHasler - 18 Dec 2004

Substituted my info for the ParentTopicName, and searchstring, and it doesn't work. No topics are returned when I use a text string that I know is in one of the pages.

-- LyneLamoureux - 11 Jan 2005

You probably need to upgrade to TWikiRelease02Sep2004.

Example search in this Support web:

%SEARCH{ "META.TOPICPARENT.name=\"WebHome\";rename" type="regex" scope="text" nosearch="on" nototal="on" }%

returns:

Results from Support web retrieved at 04:40 (GMT)

-- PeterThoeny - 11 Jan 2005

Will try the upgrade and get back to you (it might take awhile as this is a shared system). Thank you for your support and assistance.

-- LyneLamoureux - 11 Jan 2005

As of TWiki 4, METASEARCH can be used to search for topic children. Example:

%METASEARCH{ type="parent" topic="WebHome" web=%WEB% }%

More info: TWiki04.VarMETASEARCH

-- ArthurClemens - 27 Jun 2006