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wendy
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Sep 25, 2009, 8:05 PM

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Searching on Category Name Can't Post
Hi - I'm trying to do a keyword search that would include the category name. I used: <input type="hidden" name="keywordSearchFields" value="name, title, content, summary, attachments"> hoping that "name" would be the field value for category name but it's not. What do I need to put in the value to get it to search on category names?
Thanks, Wendy


Donna
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Sep 28, 2009, 2:55 PM

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Re: [wendy] Searching on Category Name [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Wendy,

There isn't really a way to search the category name, as the article doesn't store it. All the article stores is the category number(s) so you could search on that, but I doubt any of your users would be aware that "News" needs to be searched as "3", for example.

Generally, it's not a very good idea to search on the category name, as there is a limited number of options that would actually work. Instead, normally you would offer a dropdown menu of category names for users to select separately.

Can you let me know how your site is setup? Maybe we can come up with an alternative.

Donna

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wendy
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Sep 28, 2009, 6:27 PM

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Re: [Donna] Searching on Category Name [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks Donna. Makes sense to not use that as a search criteria.