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

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>]

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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 mikeh@minivend.com wrote:

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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.
> 

Though the [search-region] tag is mentioned in the docs under in-page
searches, it seems to me that the [search-region] tag is not mentioned in
tag reference list. Would be nice if it could be added there. Or did I
miss  something ?

Birgitt Funk

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