Searching for words equal to A or equal to B
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1999
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 22273
interpreted = N
texte = HiI am doing a search of products by price which works fine and now I want tonarrow the search based on user selections of manufacturers from a list.It is required that the results match only any of the maufacturers selectedall others being ignored.I have this working fine with awomanufacturerdatarq=manufacturer1,manufacturer2,manufacturer3 etc. in mysearch criteria along with my prices, but the problem occurs when I havemanufacturers where part of a name is common.In this case cars, when Rover is selected it also brings back results forLand Rover and visa versa. I have put [url] in my initial form but for WOsearches this doesn't seem to work.The problem here is WO search is not exact enough, it finds all my searchwords in the manufacturer field, I need EQ or BW searches of multiplemanufacturers on the same field but also I need to have them RQ-edI need a tag like WEQO, unless anyone can suggest another way of doing this?Paul
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HiI am doing a search of products by price which works fine and now I want tonarrow the search based on user selections of manufacturers from a list.It is required that the results match only any of the maufacturers selectedall others being ignored.I have this working fine with awomanufacturerdatarq=manufacturer1,manufacturer2,manufacturer3 etc. in mysearch criteria along with my prices, but the problem occurs when I havemanufacturers where part of a name is common.In this case cars, when Rover is selected it also brings back results forLand Rover and visa versa. I have put
[url] in my initial form but for WOsearches this doesn't seem to work.The problem here is WO search is not exact enough, it finds all my searchwords in the manufacturer field, I need EQ or BW searches of multiplemanufacturers on the same field but also I need to have them RQ-edI need a tag like WEQO, unless anyone can suggest another way of doing this?Paul
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