Feature Proposal: Nested searchs in nested forms for SearchPatternCookbook

Motivation

A similar question was answered in support web ( NestedSearch ) a few weeks ago ; this an explanation of nested searchs with nested forms for SearchPatternCookbook.

Description and Documentation

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Pattern 11: Nested searchs in nested forms

Problem

We define the following form : PublisherForm

The form is given to the following topics :

BooksFromOreilly

BooksFromAddisonWesley

Now here is BookForm :

BookForm is given to the following topics ( referenced by BookList ) :

BeautifulCode

PerlHacks

PerlMedic

For each Publisher we would like to display a BookList of published books, and then each book's ISBN 's value.

Solution

Type this:

%SEARCH{ "^%META.*BookList.*value\=.*" topic="Books*" nosearch="on" multiple="on" nototal="on" web="%WEB%" type="regex" format=" * $topic $n$percntSEARCH{ search=\"^%META.*ISBN.*value\" topic=\"$formfield(BookList)\" type=\"regex\" multiple=\"on\" format=\" * $dollartopic : ISBN $dollarformfield(ISBN) \" nosearch=\"on\" nototal=\"on\" separator=\"$dollarn\" }$nop%" nosearch="on" separator="$n" nototal="on" }%

To get this :

• BooksFromOreilly
  • BeautifulCode : ISBN 978-0-596-51004-6
  • PerlHacks : ISBN 978-0-59-652674-0
• BooksFromAddisonWesley
  • PerlMedic : ISBN 978-0-201-79526-4

to here

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: OlivierThompson - 25 Aug 2008

Discussion

Breaking up that long line makes it is easier to understand, which important to us cookbook readers.

It also makes it easier to see that you repeated a couple of terms. smile

%SEARCH{ 
 "^%META.*BookList.*value\=.*"
 topic="Books*" 
 nosearch="on" 
 multiple="on" 
 nototal="on" 
 web="%WEB%" 
 type="regex" 
 format=" * $topic $n$percntSEARCH{ search=\"^%META.*ISBN.*value\" topic=\"$formfield(BookList)\" type=\"regex\" multiple=\"on\" format=\" * $dollartopic : ISBN $dollarformfield(ISBN) \" nosearch=\"on\" nototal=\"on\" separator=\"$dollarn\" }$nop%" 
 nosearch="on" 
 separator="$n" 
 nototal="on" 
}%

-- SeanCMorgan - 26 Aug 2008

Oops ! You're right smile

-- OlivierThompson - 26 Aug 2008