[ic] Arbitrary table listings via [page] tag

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Barry Treahy, Jr.)]

Richard Eddy wrote:

>
>>>>> My MySQL database contains an arbitrary table called "ecomposers" 
>>>>> containing
>>>>> a list of composers with two fields, code and composer.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can display a list of the entries in the composer field 
>>>>> beginning with "B"
>>>>> using a loop within a page such as:
>>>>>
>>>>> [loop search="
>>>>>         fi=ecomposers
>>>>>         ac=yes
>>>>>         bs=yes
>>>>>         st=db
>>>>>         sf=composer
>>>>>         se=B
>>>>>         su=yes
>>>>>         ra=yes
>>>>>         rf=all
>>>>>         tf=composer
>>>>>         "]
>>>>>     [page scan     ... ][loop-data ecomposers composer][/page]<BR>
>>>>> [/loop]
>>>>>
>>>>> However, no matter what code I put within the
>>>>> [search-region]...[/search-region] tags on page "test.html" I cannot
>>>>> generate a similar list with:
>>>>>
>>>>> [page scan
>>>>>     fi=ecomposers
>>>>>     ac=yes
>>>>>     bs=yes
>>>>>     st=db
>>>>>     sf=composer
>>>>>     se=B
>>>>>     su=yes
>>>>>     ra=yes
>>>>>     rf=all
>>>>>     tf=composer
>>>>>     sp=test
>>>>>     ]My link
>>>>> [/page]
>>>>>
>>>>> which generates:
>>>>>
>>>>> ../cgi-bin/buywellic2/scan/fi=ecomposers/ac=yes/bs=yes/st=db/sf=composer/se 
>>>>>
>>>>> =B/su=yes/ra=yes/rf=all/tf=composer/sp=test.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been unable to resolve the following problem despite many 
>>>>> hours
>>>>> reading the manuals and the forum messages and would appreciate 
>>>>> any help you
>>>>> can give.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Richard, is it safe to presume that you duplicated the code within 
>>>> the search-region in your test.html just as you can find in the 
>>>> results.html file?  Specifically, do you have the search-list tags 
>>>> as well the error processing for no-matches?
>>>>
>>>> If so, you must be seeing something...
>>>
>>> Since receiving your reply I have done as you suggested, replacing 
>>> the code between the search-list tags of a working results.html file 
>>> but the results are the same.
>>>
>>> With [item-field composer] I get blank lines equal to the number of 
>>> matches I would expect instead of composer names.
>>
>>
>> Put the [dump] tag into the target page and then look at the last 
>> search element.  I had a problem where scan was creating loops with 
>> invalid names, its a long shot but perhaps you might be seeing the 
>> same thing ...
>>
>> Barry
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Barry, but the dump showed a valid scan line 
> (ie the one I quoted in an earlier message). 

It may be valid but what is the loop block name?  That was the problem I 
had...

Barry

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