search context w shownext works!

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1997

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texte = KenThank you for your invaluable input. It works, it works!After I made the changes you recommended and got it working, I went backthrough and deleted them again to see what made the critical difference.NB- this has only been tested with the post method. I will try get andreport on what I findHere is the rule as far as I can tell. When using a search context on apage within which you want to use a shownext, the search context *mustcontain* startat=[startat]. The shownext context must contain withinthe form If either of these two elements are not exactly as shown, the shownextcontext will not work.Perhaps Grant could consider including this in the docs. If the searchcontext contains startat=[start], it won't work, even though theshownext context uses [start] as the value. I'm still not sure howWebcat sees these things differently, and an explanation might go a longway to helping understand the under workings (logic) of the software.Using [thisurl] is more elegant and less susceptable to breaking thanhardcoding the tmpl name, so I thank you for that. Also, using searchMaxlets me make one change in the search tmpl if I ever want to change it.One note on this one: the line in the form needs to have the namesearchMax instead of max to make it work.I left the full text of your post inside this one for the benefit of thearchives, so apologies to those of you downloading this long message whodon't care ;-)Kenneth Grome wrote: >I made a few changes to your HTML that might make a difference, such as:> > 1- setting actual values in your search options> 2- putting startat=[startat] in your search parameters> 3- putting startat=[start] in the shownext parameters> 4- putting [searchCriteria] inside a [url] context (which should be> the first thing to remove if the following code doesn't work for you)> 5- getting rid of ENCTYPE=x-www-form-encoded> 6- replacing v2aliveBooksResults.tmpl with [thisurl]> 7- replacing max=3 with max=[searchMax] for your search parameters> 8- putting quotes around the form values that didn't have them> > With these changes, I believe the following code should work:> > Search template:> > > > > > v2aliveBooksResults.tmpl:> > [search> db=aliveBooksv1.db&max=[searchMax]&cart=[cart]&[SearchAction][SearchField]data=[> url][SearchCriteria][/url]&startat=[startat]]> > [shownext position=begin&max=1&method=POST]> > [/shownext]> > (other stuff here ...)> > [shownext position=end&max=1&method=POST]> > [/shownext]> > [/search]> > Sincerely, Ken Grome> WebDNA SolutionsChris GurscheEC&T Electronic Colour & Type Corp Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: search context w shownext works! (Kenneth Grome 1997)
search context w shownext works! (Chris Gursche 1997)

KenThank you for your invaluable input. It works, it works!After I made the changes you recommended and got it working, I went backthrough and deleted them again to see what made the critical difference.NB- this has only been tested with the post method. I will try get andreport on what I findHere is the rule as far as I can tell. When using a search context on apage within which you want to use a shownext, the search context *mustcontain* startat=[startat]. The shownext context must contain withinthe form If either of these two elements are not exactly as shown, the shownextcontext will not work.Perhaps Grant could consider including this in the docs. If the searchcontext contains startat=[start], it won't work, even though theshownext context uses [start] as the value. I'm still not sure howWebcat sees these things differently, and an explanation might go a longway to helping understand the under workings (logic) of the software.Using [thisurl] is more elegant and less susceptable to breaking thanhardcoding the tmpl name, so I thank you for that. Also, using searchMaxlets me make one change in the search tmpl if I ever want to change it.One note on this one: the line in the form needs to have the namesearchMax instead of max to make it work.I left the full text of your post inside this one for the benefit of thearchives, so apologies to those of you downloading this long message whodon't care ;-)Kenneth Grome wrote: >I made a few changes to your HTML that might make a difference, such as:> > 1- setting actual values in your search options> 2- putting startat=[startat] in your search parameters> 3- putting startat=[start] in the shownext parameters> 4- putting [searchCriteria] inside a [url] context (which should be> the first thing to remove if the following code doesn't work for you)> 5- getting rid of ENCTYPE=x-www-form-encoded> 6- replacing v2aliveBooksResults.tmpl with [thisurl]> 7- replacing max=3 with max=[searchMax] for your search parameters> 8- putting quotes around the form values that didn't have them> > With these changes, I believe the following code should work:> > Search template:> > > > > > v2aliveBooksResults.tmpl:> > [search> db=aliveBooksv1.db&max=[searchMax]&cart=[cart]&[SearchAction][SearchField]data=[> url][SearchCriteria][/url]&startat=[startat]]> > [shownext position=begin&max=1&method=POST]> > [/shownext]> > (other stuff here ...)> > [shownext position=end&max=1&method=POST]> > [/shownext]> > [/search]> > Sincerely, Ken Grome> WebDNA SolutionsChris GurscheEC&T Electronic Colour & Type Corp Chris Gursche

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