Conditional searching & displaying

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 14807
interpreted = N
texte = I'm having a little trouble with constructing the logic for the followingscenario:Problem 1:I'm creating a search that looks for doctors by specialty and city. Howeverif the [numfound] is less than 2 then I'd like to:A. Display whatever records did match the criteria, andB. Use a [Showif] statement to display some error messageC. Do a second search only using only the previous arguement for theSpecialty field and display those results below the error message.How do I pass the search arguements from the Specialty search into a secondsearch while ignoring the search by City arguement?Problem 2:In the results page I'd like display the city field only once for each setof doctors in that city that met the above search criteria, for example:La JollaDoc 1Doc 2San DiegoDoc 3Doc 5Pacific BeachDoc 4How do I write a [showif] (hideif ?) statement that only displays thatfield once for a given set of records.TIA ____________________________________| Marty Schmid || -Artwerks- || Design/Advertising/Web Publishing || || T. 619.274.5029 || F. 619.274.5656 || e-mail: marty@artwerks.com ||____________________________________| Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

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I'm having a little trouble with constructing the logic for the followingscenario:Problem 1:I'm creating a search that looks for doctors by specialty and city. Howeverif the [numfound] is less than 2 then I'd like to:A. Display whatever records did match the criteria, andB. Use a [showif] statement to display some error messageC. Do a second search only using only the previous arguement for theSpecialty field and display those results below the error message.How do I pass the search arguements from the Specialty search into a secondsearch while ignoring the search by City arguement?Problem 2:In the results page I'd like display the city field only once for each setof doctors in that city that met the above search criteria, for example:La JollaDoc 1Doc 2San DiegoDoc 3Doc 5Pacific BeachDoc 4How do I write a [showif] (hideif ?) statement that only displays thatfield once for a given set of records.TIA ____________________________________| Marty Schmid || -Artwerks- || Design/Advertising/Web Publishing || || T. 619.274.5029 || F. 619.274.5656 || e-mail: marty@artwerks.com ||____________________________________| Marty Schmid

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