Re: [mv] search works, but scan does not

[jojo@buchonline.net]

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On  5 Jan, David xxxxxxx wrote:
> ******    message to minivend-users from "David xxxxxxx" <dxxxxxxx@bscsystems.com>     ******
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> I've run into a problem trying to access the information in my products.asc
> database.  Here is a description of my problem.  Using the "search" option
> button which contains the following code, I can enter "cl101" to search for.
> cl101 is the product category.
> 
> <TR><TD VALIGN=top>
>  <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="[process-search]">
>  <TABLE WIDTH=100% CELLPADDING=1 CELLSPACING=1 BORDER=0 bgcolor="[var
> BARBG]">
>  <TR>
>   <TD BGCOLOR="[var BARBG]" ALIGN=RIGHT WIDTH="100%"><FONT SIZE=2
> FACE=ARIAL,HELVETICA style="text-decoration: none" COLOR="[var
> BARTEXT]"><B>SEARCH</B><BR>
>      </FONT>
>   </TD>
>  </TR>
>  <TR>
>  <TD [var TABLEFG] ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE=ARIAL,HELVETICA
> style="text-decoration: none"><INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_searchtype"
> VALUE="glimpse">
>     <INPUT MAXLENGTH="30" NAME="mv_searchspec" SIZE="13" VALUE=""><BR>
>   <FONT FACE="arial,helvetica" SIZE="-1">
>   <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Search"><BR>
>  </TD>
>  </TR></TABLE></FORM>
> 
> This code will return all of the correct results for the products.  There
> are 84 items in this category.  The search will display the first 50 on page
> one and the last 34 on page two.  This seems to work fine.
> 
> My problem lies in the following code.  This code *should*, from what I
> understand, display the same results on the screen.
> 
> <TR><TD VALIGN=top [var TABLEFG] ALIGN=right width=100%>


> <A HREF="[area scan
>   di=category
>   df=yes
>   dl=cl101]">

Try 

[page scan/sf=category/ml=50/se=cl101]
 <FONT SIZE=2 FACE=ARIAL,HELVETICA style="text-decoration:
 none"><B>CL101&nbsp;</FONT></A><BR></TD></TR>
[/page]


> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE=ARIAL,HELVETICA style="text-decoration:
> none"><B>CL101&nbsp;</FONT></A><BR></TD></TR>
> 
> In place of the 84 items, an error message is the result.  This error
> message reads "Sorry, no matches for cl101."  Here is a little bit of
> background on what I have found so far.
> 
> When I only had a few items in the products.asc file I encountered this same
> problem.  I was able to resolve the issue by deleting a file from the
> catalog/products directory on the server.  The filename is products.asc.8 .
> After deleting this file it would bring up the correct information.  Again,
> this was with a smaller database.  If I delete products.asc.8 with the
> larger database, it seems to have no effect.
> 
> I am using Wordpad to enter the information into the products.asc file.  I
> thought perhaps I had a tab off or something similar.  I opened the file in
> Excel just to check it and the spacing and tabs all look like they are
> correct.

Dos/WIN-file has another line-ending-code. Look or search for a
programm "dos2unix.exe" via the web and use it. 
Other way is to upload your products.asc via ftp with ASCII-Mode.

 
> I have searched through the documentation, FAQ, and all of the email that I
> have aquired from this mailing list and haven't yet found anything to
> resolve this issue.
> 
> If you have any ideas or input, or if I did not provide adequite
> information, please let me know.
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David xxxxxxx
> dxxxxxxx@bscsystems.com

Regards,

Joachim
 
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