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marys
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Apr 21, 2009, 5:19 PM

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How can I restrict search.cgi to search only specific categories?

Several categories on my client's site will be password protected.

Search.cgi will be called from two different, dynamically called menu.html files. (My search box is in my menu bar.) I set up two menu.html files: one for the unprotected pages, the other for the protected pages.

After the form is called into action, here is the hidden code I included:

<!--
<input type="hidden" name="sortBy" value="fieldname, -fieldnameReverseOrder, fieldname">
<input type="hidden" name="keywordSearchFields" value="Title">
-->

I know I can use something like this to restrict the search to one category:

<input type="hidden" name="catNum" value="29" />

How do I code the search.cgi call if I want to restrict the search to catNum 1 - 28, for example?

Do I have to enter a hidden catNum for each value (1-28)?


Donna
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Apr 22, 2009, 4:03 PM

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Re: [marys] Search only specific categories [In reply to] Can't Post
Try this:

<input type="hidden" name="categoryNum" value="12,29,36,44">

I hope this helps. :)

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marys
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Apr 25, 2009, 12:50 PM

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Re: [Donna] Search only specific categories [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks, Donna, but...

I now get this error:

Error: no category specified! at /home/changed/chan/f/a/666666/html/artman2/modules//IT/ArtMan/CustomMenus/Publish.pm line 486.

(I edited the directory names to protect the info, but all from "/html" is original.)

My hidden values look like this:

<input type="hidden" name="action" value="search"/>
<input type="hidden" name="categoryNum" value="101,19,20,21,22,24,62,67,68">


(This post was edited by marys on Apr 25, 2009, 3:08 PM)


ross
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Apr 27, 2009, 10:09 AM

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Re: [marys] Search only specific categories [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi marys

Thanks for the feedback.

The error message you are getting there usually means you have a publish rule set to only include certain categories but haven't actually selected any categories for it.

What you'll want to do is go through your article list publish rules and make sure any of them that are set to include or exclude actually have something selected in the category list.

Does that make sense? Have a look and let me know how you make out :).
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marys
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Jun 25, 2009, 12:35 PM

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Re: [ross] Search only specific categories [In reply to] Can't Post
I have three article page publish rules:

1 is for public site article pages
2 is for private site article pages
3 is the preview rule

I've tried both ways on both rules: to include only the files on the public site for 1; then to exclude the private site files.

Did the same with 2.

I still get:

Error: no category specified! at /home/cluster1/data/f/a/812545/html/artman2/modules//IT/ArtMan/CustomMenus/Publish.pm line 486.

I also tried adding the category numbers to the search.cgi string:

form action="http://www.website/artman2/search.cgi?&categoryNums=101,19,20,21,22,24,62,67,68"

I get search results, but they include results from categories not specified in the string.


(This post was edited by marys on Jun 25, 2009, 12:54 PM)


Donna
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Jun 26, 2009, 1:30 PM

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Re: [marys] Search only specific categories [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Mary,

Instead of including the search string in the form action, you'll want to include it as a separate field like this:

<input type="hidden" name="categoryNums" value="101,19,20,21,22,24,62,67,68">

I hope this helps. :)

Donna

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