Re: Nesting searches.

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1998

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texte = When you nest [search] contexts, the outermost search is performed first. However, it sounds like you really want to combine multiple crieteria into a single search? For example, to do something like you mentioned (French AND German match first, and then match another field), you could build a [search] like this (note that actual field names and search types are for display purposes only):[search db=db.db&eqFRENCHdatarq=1&eqGERMANdatarq=2&eqFIELDdatarq=test]JOhn.>Hi folks,>I am trying to build nested searches. I need to do an and/or search on a>number of fields and combine this result with another search. e.g. French>AND German match first and then match that with with another field. Does>wcat evaluate from the innermost nested search first? I am using a form to>collect the data and performing the search on the results page. Any hints>on how to approach this?>Thanks,>>Regards,>****************************************************************>Micheal O Se>www.elive.ie Internet Hosting Service>micheal@elive.ie Database powered websites>**************************************************************** John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing Pacific Coast SoftwareeCommerce / Web Developer Tools http://www.smithmicro.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Nesting searches. (John Hill 1998)
Nesting searches. (M�che�l O S� 1998)

When you nest [search] contexts, the outermost search is performed first. However, it sounds like you really want to combine multiple crieteria into a single search? For example, to do something like you mentioned (French AND German match first, and then match another field), you could build a [search] like this (note that actual field names and search types are for display purposes only):[search db=db.db&eqFRENCHdatarq=1&eqGERMANdatarq=2&eqFIELDdatarq=test]JOhn.>Hi folks,>I am trying to build nested searches. I need to do an and/or search on a>number of fields and combine this result with another search. e.g. French>AND German match first and then match that with with another field. Does>wcat evaluate from the innermost nested search first? I am using a form to>collect the data and performing the search on the results page. Any hints>on how to approach this?>Thanks,>>Regards,>****************************************************************>Micheal O Se>www.elive.ie Internet Hosting Service>micheal@elive.ie Database powered websites>**************************************************************** John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing Pacific Coast SoftwareeCommerce / Web Developer Tools http://www.smithmicro.com John Hill

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