Re: summarizing date search by month...

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2000


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Basically I think you will need a nested search. The outside search does a sorted date summary search on your event date and the inner search lists the individual items... something like this:[search... neEVENTDATEdata=0&EVENTDATEtype=date&asEVENTDATEsort=1&EVENTDATEsumm=t ] [founditems] Events for [EVENTDATE}
[search... &eqEVENTDATEdata=[EVENTDATE] [founditems] [EVENTNAME]
[/founditems] [/search] [/founditems][/search] [/joe] At 7:36 PM 6/15/00, John wrote: >ok here is what I am trying to do.. >I have a bunch of events in a db with a date 01/01/2000 (and the >webcat prefs set the same). I can return a search and sort it by >date. > >What I would like to do is have the results sort of like this... > >month > all events in the month sorted >next month > all the events, etc. > >I have two problems... > >1. converting a date to a month (since I have no month field) .. I >thought of using a lookup with a convert_db but seems like I would >need to do a wildcard for day and year.. is this possible? > >2. having the founditems not repeat the month with each returned record... > >any help would be appreciated.... > >john > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/_________________________________________________ Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.com WEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century http://www.west21.com/ _________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: summarizing date search by month... (Joseph D'Andrea 2000)
  2. summarizing date search by month... (John 2000)
Basically I think you will need a nested search. The outside search does a sorted date summary search on your event date and the inner search lists the individual items... something like this:[search... neEVENTDATEdata=0&EVENTDATEtype=date&asEVENTDATEsort=1&EVENTDATEsumm=t ] [founditems] Events for [EVENTDATE}
[search... &eqEVENTDATEdata=[EVENTDATE] [founditems] [EVENTNAME]
[/founditems] [/search] [/founditems][/search] [/joe] At 7:36 PM 6/15/00, John wrote: >ok here is what I am trying to do.. >I have a bunch of events in a db with a date 01/01/2000 (and the >webcat prefs set the same). I can return a search and sort it by >date. > >What I would like to do is have the results sort of like this... > >month > all events in the month sorted >next month > all the events, etc. > >I have two problems... > >1. converting a date to a month (since I have no month field) .. I >thought of using a lookup with a convert_db but seems like I would >need to do a wildcard for day and year.. is this possible? > >2. having the founditems not repeat the month with each returned record... > >any help would be appreciated.... > >john > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/_________________________________________________ Joseph D'Andrea JoeDan@West21.com WEST21.com Internet services for the 21st Century http://www.west21.com/ _________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Joseph D'Andrea

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