Fwd: [ic] newbie help

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Bill Carr)]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 18:41, Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
> David Millet wrote:
> 
> >hi,
> >
> >I sent this email earlier today.  Is no one able to help me?
> >
> >David
> >david@adoptionmedia.com
> >
> >hey sup all,
> >
> >i'm an interchange newbie and was hopin you guys could help me to my feet.
> >
> >I have the following code in my index.html file:
> >
> >[query sql="SELECT DISTINCT prod_group FROM products ORDER BY prod_group"
> >prefix=books type=list more=1 ml=10]
> >	[list]
> >
> >		<a href="[area  href=scan
> >		search=|
> >
> >		fi=products
> >		st=db
> >
> >		se=[books-param prod_group]
> >		op=rm
> >		nu=0
> >
> >		ml=50
> >		tf=category
> >		to=x
> >
> >		]"><font face="verdana"><b>[books-param prod_group]</b></font></a><br />
> >
> >		br />
> >
> >	[/list]
> >[/query]
> >
> >so this code dumps out 10 clickable versions of the product groups in the
> >database (prod_group).  I
> >
> I'm no SQL expert but your query doesn't appear to be touching any DB 
> but the products database.  What you are indicating below is seems an 
> aweful lot like the demo site.
> 
> > need the code to additionally print out all the
> >products in the product group, so that it ends up like this
> >
> >product group1
> >product a, product b, product c, product d,
> >
> >product group 2
> >product e, product f, product g, product h,
> >  
> >
> Is there a reason you are not using the area database to drive this? 
>  Take another look at the demo store, I think you'll find exaction what 
> you are looking for there...  
> 
> Barry
> 
> -- 
> 
> Barry Treahy, Jr  *  Midwest Microwave  *  Vice President & CIO 
> 
> E-mail: Treahy@mmaz.com * Phone: 480/314-1320 * FAX: 480/661-7028
I'll help you if you change your name to Mullet ;-)

Select the 'product' in your sql parameter above. Use sql-change to only
print the product group once.
 

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Bill Carr
Worldwide Impact
bill@worldwideimpact.com
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