Re: Can minivend go directly to flypage when the search returns only one item?

["David Ekholm" <info@minivend.com>]

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>******    message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk
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>I don't know  why you want to do that. Can't you simply search
>for your item code (ISBN number) and define a separate search profile for
>it ? This way you always have only one item as search result and your
>result page for that kind of search has the same format as the
>flypage.html.
>
>For a search profile for an ISBN search look into mv_dict_look as the
>mv_search_spec in the docs.


Thanks, Birgitt, for your suggestion.  I agree, if I only want to search by
ISBN, then what you suggested will work.  But I also want to be able to
search using title and author keywords.  If a particular book exists in more
than one format, the result of the search should be a list - paperback,
hardcover, large print, etc.  However, if the book only exists in one
format, then I don't need to see a list containing one book.  It would be
better if I'm zapped right to the flypage for that book.  As I said, that is
what Amazon does, and it actually makes a lot of sense for any product, it
doesn't just apply to books.

So, does anyone out there know how to do this with minivend?


David Ekholm
A Compleat Mystery Bookshop        Phone: 603-430-7553
7 Commercial Alley                 Fax: 603-430-9387
Portsmouth, NH 03801               Web: http://www.compleatmystery.com



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