Re: Arbitrary Database Problems

[Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>]

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On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Mike Lerley wrote:
> I have a database of music where different forms of the same product
> (tape, CD, etc) have the same item code with a .1, .2, etc. appended.  I
> created a separate product index (prodindex) for searching that contains
> only the unique item codes.  Otherwise I get multiple returns in the
> search for each form of the product.  So I set up my search page to
> search prodindex.asc. Works great.  Returns the right number, etc.  Now
> I want to build my results page so that it references prodindex.asc for
> the title, artist, etc. info rather than products.asc.  But it's not
> working.  I get no results whatsoever from my [data .. ] tag.  What am I
> doing wrong?  Specifics follow.
> 
> catalog.cfg
> Database    prodindex    prodindex.asc    TAB
> 
> results.html
> [search-list]
> ...
> [data prodindex title [item-code]]

Try
 
 [item_data prodindex title]

In the reference manual see THE SEARCH ENGINE / The Results Page.

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, Inc.                            dan@dpcsys.com
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