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jimneilson
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Jan 7, 2003, 4:08 AM
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Hi all at Interactive Tools and all the best for 2003.
I am experementing and trying to create a data base for my local portal from am.
As clients will not be uploading listings, only info on their company, i have set up the home page template to look like a web page, with address, fields for comments etc, it all works well but when i set up the "search_homepage.cgi with the "hfield16_match" or hfield16_keyword, the search return not found etc. I have set up the home page hfield16 for the catagory that applys to their business.
Please can you advise.
Thanks Jim
(This post was edited by jimneilson on Jan 8, 2003, 7:53 PM)
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Cathy
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Jan 7, 2003, 1:09 PM
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Jim,
First let me say I am not a programmer.... :-)
But, I think your problem might be that you have more than one search field referencing hfield16 and basically all the fields are combining and are doing a "and" search. Such as Accountants from list 1 AND D-H from list 2 AND I-R from list three, etc., and, of course, you don't have a category that matches all those selections.
Try making your default dropdown selection, i.e. A-C, D-H, etc., equal to <option value="">.
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jimneilson
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Jan 7, 2003, 4:30 PM
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Thanks, I changed the code and it now will return results, but when you select a business in the A-C box it returns all listings, but when you select a business cat from S-Z box, it returns only the business looked for.
Thanks for your help. Any other ideas?
Jim
(This post was edited by jimneilson on Jan 7, 2003, 4:51 PM)
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Cathy
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Jan 9, 2003, 8:05 AM
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No other suggestions here, Jim.
Perhaps you could post a URL of the serach page so others might be able to take a look at what you have.
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Damon
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Jan 9, 2003, 1:55 PM
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Hi Jim,
I would like to look into this further for you to find a solution but it is hard to determine what is going on without viewing the search page source.
Can you email me at support@interactivetools.com the URLto your search page so I can take a look at how you have it set up.
Thanks,
Cheers
Damon Edis
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jimneilson
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Jan 10, 2003, 7:53 AM
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Hi Damon
Have a look at When i search for Restaurants and select Elgin it returns all Elgin Business, rather than restaurants in Elgin only.
All business are hfield1 and town is hfield4
exec/search_homepage.cgi?search=1&perpage=10&sort_order=1%2Cabc%2Cforward&marknew=1&euro_numbers=0&hfield1_keyword=&hfield1_keyword=&hfield1_keyword=Restaurants&hfield1_keyword=&hfield4_match=Elgin
This return all Elgin Business
exec/search_homepage.cgi?search=1&perpage=10&sort_order=1%2Cabc%2Cforward&marknew=1&euro_numbers=0&hfield1_keyword=&hfield1_keyword=&hfield1_keyword=Restaurants
Returns all Restaurants
Please have a look
"I am a sales man not a programmer but getting there"
Jim
(This post was edited by jimneilson on Jan 16, 2003, 2:42 PM)
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Benjamin
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Jan 12, 2003, 1:17 PM
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Hi Jim,
After glancing at the two search strings you included, there's clearly something wonky with your form: there's quite a few redundant hfield1_keyword's. I also took a look at the link you supplied, but had a hard time figuring out which listings were from which town & business - so I wasn't sure if it was working or not! :-)
I think perhaps your best bet would be to fill in our support request form (which includes your FTP information) so we could take a direct look at the problem.
Ben
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jimneilson
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Jan 16, 2003, 2:40 PM
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Hi Ben i have looked at how the search works and have found that if, lets say we are searching for a business. i have set up a home page field hfield18 as a keyword field, when clients enter their details they enter all business related keywords in hfield18.
I have also set up a search box searching only hfield18 for business keywords and it works well.
It's all food for thought!
Thanks
Jim
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Benjamin
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Jan 16, 2003, 3:30 PM
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Great, Jim! I'm glad it's all working now. Thanks for keeping us updated 
Ben
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