Re: unusual search problem

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 20709
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texte = Oh, I see what you're trying to do. WO sees both space and plus as a word separator. If you want a different list of word separators (just plus) use the word separator parameter to specify them.John. >>>The actual search string created by this code makes the plus signs into %20, and that screws up my searches. Here is the parameter created by this code when I check two of the checkboxes:>>>>>>&wofieldNamedatarq=US%20West%20GTE%20>>>>>>... but what I *wanted* for this parameter is:>>>>>>US%20WEST+GTE+>>>The work around is to wrap a [url] context around the plus character (or just specify it as its %xx equivalent) in [search] text. Then WebCat will convert it back to a plus before processing. (you will notice that the [url] context converts + characters, even though they're legal in a URL, for this reason).>>I tried specifying it as %2B as suggested (also) by PCS Tech Support, but it doesn't work, webcat still sees the + sign as a space in terms of word separations in the search parameters, so the end result is that:>>&wofieldNamedatarq=US%20West%2BGTE>>looks like this on the web page itself:>>US West+GTE>>But in the search context it still acts like it did before.>In other words, the problem still remains ... :(>>Any other ideas for making this work properly?>>I already tried this:>>group1Field=brand>eqgroup1data=US%20WEST>group2Field=brand>eqgroup2data=GTE>>... not only using eq but also ws and wo, and nothing works properly, so there may be a problem using the webcat field grouping features too. I think I should have been able to do it that way but I still haven't found a way ... :(>>Sincerely,>Ken Grome>808-737-6499>WebDNA Solutions>mailto:ken@webdna.net>http://www.webdna.net 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: unusual search problem (John Hill 1998)
Re: unusual search problem (Martin Gertz Bech 1998)
Re: unusual search problem (Kenneth Grome 1998)
Re: unusual search problem (Kenneth Grome 1998)
Re: unusual search problem (John Hill 1998)
Re: unusual search problem (PCS Technical Support 1998)
unusual search problem (Kenneth Grome 1998)

Oh, I see what you're trying to do. WO sees both space and plus as a word separator. If you want a different list of word separators (just plus) use the word separator parameter to specify them.John. >>>The actual search string created by this code makes the plus signs into %20, and that screws up my searches. Here is the parameter created by this code when I check two of the checkboxes:>>>>>>&wofieldNamedatarq=US%20West%20GTE%20>>>>>>... but what I *wanted* for this parameter is:>>>>>>US%20WEST+GTE+>>>The work around is to wrap a [url] context around the plus character (or just specify it as its %xx equivalent) in [search] text. Then WebCat will convert it back to a plus before processing. (you will notice that the [url] context converts + characters, even though they're legal in a URL, for this reason).>>I tried specifying it as %2B as suggested (also) by PCS Tech Support, but it doesn't work, webcat still sees the + sign as a space in terms of word separations in the search parameters, so the end result is that:>>&wofieldNamedatarq=US%20West%2BGTE>>looks like this on the web page itself:>>US West+GTE>>But in the search context it still acts like it did before.>In other words, the problem still remains ... :(>>Any other ideas for making this work properly?>>I already tried this:>>group1Field=brand>eqgroup1data=US%20WEST>group2Field=brand>eqgroup2data=GTE>>... not only using eq but also ws and wo, and nothing works properly, so there may be a problem using the webcat field grouping features too. I think I should have been able to do it that way but I still haven't found a way ... :(>>Sincerely,>Ken Grome>808-737-6499>WebDNA Solutions>mailto:ken@webdna.net>http://www.webdna.net John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing Pacific Coast SoftwareeCommerce / Web Developer Tools http://www.smithmicro.com John Hill

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