[ic] Problems with searches

[Ed LaFrance]

At 03:26 PM 05/21/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'm setting up a shop with multiple product databases (one containing
>general information about the product, and one containing language specific
>stuff). I'm tring to set up a simple little search using this database, but
>I can't get the search to actually return any products. This is the form I'm
>using:
>
><form action="[area search]" method="post">
>[set
>search_type]su=yes/fi=products/fi=products_no/sf=title/sf=product_id/st=db[/
>set]
><input type="hidden" name="mv_profile" value="search_type">
><input type="text" name="mv_searchspec" size="15">&nbsp;<input type="submit"
>name="submit" value="Search">
></form>
>
>What I'm tring to accomplish is to search the databases (products (the
>general) and products_no (the language specific)) using the product_id and
>title-field. The product_id-field is in table 'products', and title is in
>table 'products_no'.
>
>When I type in a search criteria and click Search, I get up a page telling
>there was no items found matching my query. The results.html-page is the
>same as shown in the Interchange tutorial.
>
>Am I missing something?
>
>--
>Trond Arve Nordheim

I think you have a syntax problem with you profile - I don't think 
var=value/var=value/etc works in this case. Try rephrasing it as shown here:

http://developer.akopia.com/cgi-bin/ic/dev/icdatabase_31.html

- Ed L.




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