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Mike R
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Hi Shane,
Here is how I would recommend that you go about setting this up (you may already have your $lfield16$ setup this way)...
Go into Setup Options for Auto Manager, and then "Setup Listing Fields". Create a custom field called "Status" and give it two options - "Available" and "Sold". Make the field type a dropdown menu, and type the options like so:
Status (Available, Sold)
Don't bother adding a comma before the word "Available", that way all listings you add will be available by default, and you would only have to change it if you want to change a vehicle's status to "Sold".
Then, you will need to add the following line of code into the form in the /templates/_search_query.html file:
<input type="hidden" name="lfield16_keyword" value="Available">
(Assuming you've used field #16 when you added the "Status" options)
Then, any listings that have been change to a status of "Sold" will not be shown in the search results, while all listings that are "Available" will show up.
I hope this helps, and please let me know if you want any additional details. :)
Mike Roulston
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dedbob
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Apr 30, 2003, 1:46 AM
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Well I hadn't thought of doing it that way, but I did and it werked :-]. I was hoping for something like exclude_lfield16_keyword=SOLD... but it's not really necessary I guess. Your suggestion did of course, add the extra word "Available" in all of my pages, but what they heck... I get the same result and that all that matters.
Anyway... this will save me mucho bandwidth. Not to mention, I can keep my listings uncluttered AND still have all of my pages crawlable by googlebot via the listings index page.
Thanks for the help!
Scott
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Donna
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Apr 30, 2003, 8:57 AM
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Hi Scott!
Glad to hear that's working for you. :)
You don't HAVE to have the word "available" on all of your searches. Since the search engine is querying the database, and the field is in the database anyway, there's no reason that you have to display it on the listings page... unless, of course, you want to. :)
Let me know if you have any other questions. :)
Cheers!
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dedbob
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Apr 30, 2003, 10:11 AM
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hmmm.... I understand that it's in the database and searchable even if it's not on the page, but if $lfield16$ contains both Available and SOLD, there's no way to remove one and not the other (I think), being that I have to mark sold cars as sold on the individual page.
Are you saying that I can display "SOLD" on some pages and not display "Available" on others, when they are both $lfield16$ and being that I'm forcing them to select one of them? 
If so... I obviously missed something. Let me know 
Thanks,
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Donna
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Apr 30, 2003, 2:58 PM
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Hi Scott!
Ah, I see what you're getting at. You're right, it's generally not built in to display one but not the other.
You could setup a conditional statement, such as the one Ben describes in this post:
http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum.cgi?post=10309
You'd have to muck around with it a bit to recognize the difference between sold and not sold.
The other option would be to setup a listing field that only has two choices -- "Sold" or nothing at all. (So, it would be a dropdown like this: Status (,Sold)
Then it would only display the Sold status, since the "Available" status would be blank.
Would be a little difficult to search on "Available" vehicles, though.
In any event, I hope that bumps you in the right direction. :)
Let me know if you have any further questions.
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(This post was edited by Donna on Jun 30, 2003, 11:44 AM)
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leeshields
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Jul 1, 2003, 12:43 AM
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Hi
If you want to display SOLD on your listings, or Available for that matter, you could use the field status to display an image
setup 2 (or more) gifs named, available.gif and sold.gif, offer.gif etc etc
then setup the sold field to select the image, you can still use this for a search etc, if you dont want to display anything just create a blank gif
you can see this in action on http://www.villassist.com/varm/exec/search.cgi
the direct sale/promoter sale/sold icon under the image is done this way
heres the code
<img src="../../media/$lfield4$.gif" width="150" height="25">
simple!
hope this helps
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Lee Shields
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Paul Withey Estate Agents
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Thanks, Lee! That's another good way of doing it. :)
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