Re: Searching Relational Databases
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texte = On 1/8/04 2:13 PM, "Justin Carroll"
wrote:> We're using version 4.0.2 rc2 Thanks.Of course in this scenario this could be solved by adding a field to thebusiness.db that contains a updated total employee count that would bemodified by the add/delete in the employee system....BUT, assuming that you cant do that or since this is just an example youcould use the following complex logic.Search on the business.db on your criteria and return a results list thatjust seeds your variables:[Text]Businessrank=[/text][Text]Businesssku=[/text][Text]Busrerank=[/text][search business.db&on something][founditems][text]indexvar=[index][/text][search db=employee.db&eqbusiness_skudatarq=[sku]] [showif [indexvar]=1] [text]businessrank=[SKU]|[numfound]|[/text] [/showif] [showif [indexvar]>1] [text]totalvar=[CountWords Delimiters=|][businessrank][/countwords][/text] [listwords words=[businessrank] Delimiters=|] [showif [index]\2] [showif [numfound]>[word]] [text]busrerank=[sku]|numfound]|[busrerank][/text] [/showif] [showif [index]=[totalvar]] [text]busrerank=[busrerank]|[sku]|numfound]|[/text] [/showif] [/showif][/listwords][listwords words=[busrerank] Delimiters=|] [hideif [index]\2][Text]Businesssku=[businesssku]|[word][/text][/listwords][/founditems][/search][listwords words=[businesssku] Delimiters=|][Lookup db=business.db&value=[word]&lookInField=sku&returnField=business_name¬Found=][/listwords]I believe this is fairly solid. It should give you a variable with the skusto the business.db sorted from largest to smallest which you could then useto do the lookups in order.Like I said, this is UNTESTED, but I believe the logic is fairly sound, giveor take a syntax error here or there... I just threw it together to get usstarted.Anyone?Alex J McCombie New World MediaChief Information Officer Box 124888/892.6379 MartVille, NY 13111Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer-------------------------------------------------------------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://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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On 1/8/04 2:13 PM, "Justin Carroll" wrote:> We're using version 4.0.2 rc2 Thanks.Of course in this scenario this could be solved by adding a field to thebusiness.db that contains a updated total employee count that would bemodified by the add/delete in the employee system....BUT, assuming that you cant do that or since this is just an example youcould use the following complex logic.Search on the business.db on your criteria and return a results list thatjust seeds your variables:[text]Businessrank=[/text][text]Businesssku=[/text][text]Busrerank=[/text][search business.db&on something][founditems][text]indexvar=[index][/text][search db=employee.db&eqbusiness_skudatarq=[sku]] [showif [indexvar]=1] [text]businessrank=[SKU]|[numfound]|[/text] [/showif] [showif [indexvar]>1] [text]totalvar=[CountWords Delimiters=|][businessrank][/countwords][/text] [listwords words=[businessrank] Delimiters=|] [showif [index]\2] [showif [numfound]>[word]] [text]busrerank=[sku]|numfound]|[busrerank][/text] [/showif] [showif [index]=[totalvar]] [text]busrerank=[busrerank]|[sku]|numfound]|[/text] [/showif] [/showif][/listwords][listwords words=[busrerank] Delimiters=|] [hideif [index]\2][text]Businesssku=[businesssku]|[word][/text][/listwords][/founditems][/search][listwords words=[businesssku] Delimiters=|][Lookup db=business.db&value=[word]&lookInField=sku&returnField=business_name¬Found=][/listwords]I believe this is fairly solid. It should give you a variable with the skusto the business.db sorted from largest to smallest which you could then useto do the lookups in order.Like I said, this is UNTESTED, but I believe the logic is fairly sound, giveor take a syntax error here or there... I just threw it together to get usstarted.Anyone?Alex J McCombie New World MediaChief Information Officer Box 124888/892.6379 MartVille, NY 13111Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer-------------------------------------------------------------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://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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