johnshiel
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Nov 26, 2007, 4:07 AM
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Hi Everyone!
There may be a couple of solutions to this problem - I'll take any of them!
My customer lists timeshare properties owned by a variety of customers. These customers list their own properties and each has their own homepage.
She wants to assign a 'priority' hfield to each customer. In this case, hfield6 is defined as priority A, B or C.
Naturally, her customers shouldn't be able to re-modify their priority themselves, so I have disabled her customer's ability to modify their homepage entirely (don't knock it, it does the job!)
What I want to do now is apply a listings search based upon this new hfield$ field.
I am aware that a search mixing hfield$ and lfield$ is not yet possible with Listings Manager, but can I merely display Listings (NOT, I repeat, NOT homepages) in hfield6 priority order?
e.g. say hfield6 is defined as priority A, B, or C - how can I show the As listings first, Bs listings next and the Cs listings last?
As an encore, can these be subdivided by lfield? Again, I know that we can't mix lfield and hfield in a search, but is there a script which lets you sift and select by an lfield, then subsequently sorts those results by hfield?
Furthermore, thanks to your forums info I know about search_homepage.cgi and have made it work for sorting through homepages. But that is NOT what I want to do here - I want LISTINGS sorted by the priority assigned to the listee.
I hope you can help, even if it is only to tell me it is impossible! (If it IS impossible, I have a different strategy based upon selective display of backend items which I'll need help on, but that's for another time..!)
Thanks a million,
John
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