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Re: Can minivend go directly to flypage when the search returns only one item?
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Quoting David Ekholm (info@minivend.com):
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have searched the documentation and the mailing list archive about this
> question. If it's so simple that no one has bothered to post the answer,
> then please bear with me.
>
> Is there an easy way to get minivend to go to the flypage for an item when
> the search returns only one item? For an example of what I'm referring to,
> try searching for a unique book on Amazon.com. This seems like an obvious
> option but I can't find it anywhere in the docs.
>
> I've tried to put my flypage code in the results page as in:
>
> [if value mv_search_match_count < 2]
>
> [search-list] (flypage stuff) [/search-list]
>
> [else]
>
> [search-list] (result page stuff) [/search-list]
>
> [/else][/if]
>
> This works OK for a few items, but is really slow if > 20 items are returned
> by the search. I guess that minivend must go through the entire
> [search-list] (flypage stuff) [/search-list] routine even though I want the
> [if] tag to bypass this when there is more than 1 item. The [if] tag
> apparently just prevents the result from getting to the browser.
Surround each [search-list] with [search-region] [/search-region]
and it should only do the substitution once. Make sure to put the
[no-match] [/no-match] section inside those.
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