Re: Problem displaying search result

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 13583
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texte = I can't say that this isn the problem, but I noticed that your database(catalog.db) has a variable number of fields per line. I assume it issupposed to be a tab delimited db and not Merge? Each record should havethe same number or fields. Try re-building the database with just a fewrecords, checking it before puttin it up, restarting WebCatalog, and seewhat happens.JOhn.>At 10:16 -0800 9/24/97, Jay Van Vark wrote:>>>At 8:51 9/23/97, John Hill wrote:>>>>The most likely situation here is that the database catalog.db doesn't have>>>>a field named category in it. I hope this helps.>>>>>>>>>My problem is,>>>>>after processing the search request on Entry.tmpl, the results shown on>>>>>search.tmpl lists [category]s, not the categories themselves (ie, Books,>>>>>Records, etc.).>>>>>> Thanks, John. No, it has a field named category. That's not to>>>say that I didn't find that I'd misspelled it on another debug run, but>>>changing that didn't fix it either.>>>>>>Cheers,>>>Lurch>>>>Next thought would be the field is out of context -- ie you are not in the>>FOUNDITEMS context...>>>>Jay Van Vark>> Thanks Jay, but here's the code from that part of the page:>>[foundItems]>

href=Results.tmpl$search?db=catalog.db&eqcategorydatarq=[url][category][/url]&>c>art=[cart]&searchTitle=[url][category][/url]>[category]>[/foundItems]>> Once again if anybody would like to look at the page, enter through:>> >> The catalog.db is in the same directory (ie, countrystore/) if>that's any help. This thing is driving me nuts and I appreciate all the>help.>>Thanks,>Joe (aka, Lurch)John A. Hill Pacific Coast Software11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #453 * Web tools for Macintosh and WinNT *San Diego, CA 92128 http://www.smithmicro.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Problem displaying search result (Joe R. Richardson 1997) Re: Problem displaying search result (John Hill 1997) Re: Problem displaying search result (Grant Hulbert 1997) Re: Problem displaying search result (Kenneth Grome 1997) Re: Problem displaying search result (Joe R. Richardson 1997) Re: Problem displaying search result (Jay Van Vark 1997) Re: Problem displaying search result (Joe R. Richardson 1997) Re:Problem displaying search result (Jay Van Vark 1997) Re: Problem displaying search result (John Hill 1997) Problem displaying search result (Joe R. Richardson 1997)

I can't say that this isn the problem, but I noticed that your database(catalog.db) has a variable number of fields per line. I assume it issupposed to be a tab delimited db and not Merge? Each record should havethe same number or fields. Try re-building the database with just a fewrecords, checking it before puttin it up, restarting WebCatalog, and seewhat happens.JOhn.>At 10:16 -0800 9/24/97, Jay Van Vark wrote:>>>At 8:51 9/23/97, John Hill wrote:>>>>The most likely situation here is that the database catalog.db doesn't have>>>>a field named category in it. I hope this helps.>>>>>>>>>My problem is,>>>>>after processing the search request on Entry.tmpl, the results shown on>>>>>search.tmpl lists [category]s, not the categories themselves (ie, Books,>>>>>Records, etc.).>>>>>> Thanks, John. No, it has a field named category. That's not to>>>say that I didn't find that I'd misspelled it on another debug run, but>>>changing that didn't fix it either.>>>>>>Cheers,>>>Lurch>>>>Next thought would be the field is out of context -- ie you are not in the>>FOUNDITEMS context...>>>>Jay Van Vark>> Thanks Jay, but here's the code from that part of the page:>>[founditems]>

href=Results.tmpl$search?db=catalog.db&eqcategorydatarq=[url][category][/url]&>c>art=[cart]&searchTitle=[url][category][/url]>[category]>[/foundItems]>> Once again if anybody would like to look at the page, enter through:>> >> The catalog.db is in the same directory (ie, countrystore/) if>that's any help. This thing is driving me nuts and I appreciate all the>help.>>Thanks,>Joe (aka, Lurch)John A. Hill Pacific Coast Software11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #453 * Web tools for Macintosh and WinNT *San Diego, CA 92128 http://www.smithmicro.com John Hill

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