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Messay display
When I search Links SQL, I got a messay display. It looks like this:

Category 1
Links
Links
Category 2
link
link
category 3
link
Category 2
link
link
Category 1
link

I prefer a neat display such as Category 1 with all the relevant links,
followed by category 2, followed by category 3, etc. Why links in a
categories break into peices? Can someone help?

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I don't understand your request...that is how links does display
links by their relevant categories.


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Cheers,
Me
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Eliot:

When I do a search, I want all the relevant links from a category
to be kept together. Now my display breaks one category up into
many seperate pieces. The right display should be:

category 1 with all the relevant links
category 2 with all the relevant links
category 3 with all the relevant links
categpru 4 with all the relevant links

Instead my display now is:

category 1 with some links
category 2 with some links
cateogry 1 again with some links
category 3 with some links
category 2 again with some links
category 1 again with some links
category 2 again with some links
category 1 again with some links...

It looks confusing. Why does the same category appear in many different
places and out of order? Help!


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Re: [banana] Messay display In reply to
Hi,

The best links are shown first, but all links in a category are grouped per page. That's why you see it split up like that.

It's not trivial to change unfortunately. You can turn grouping off and just list the links.

Cheers,

Alex
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Alex:

you said "The best links are shown first, but all links in a category are grouped per page. That's why you see it split up like that."

Do you mean to say that all the links within a category are display by their ranking based on relevance. But all the links within that category are displayed together and only break up be how many records can be displayed on one page? My case is the same category appear several times seperated by other categories. Is it normal? My site is sabrina.rider.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi. Do a search "law" and you will get more than 100 links in several categories. One category may appear in several places, broken up by other categories. I am very suspicious about this.
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Hi,

Your search looked normal. You can turn category grouping on or off in Setup->Search Options->search_group_by I believe.

With grouping on, how it works is Links SQL finds the 25 best links (ranked by relevance). It then groups those links by category and displays the results. So you should not see the same category twice on the same page, however when you go to page two, you may see a category that appeared on page 1.

Let me know if that makes sesnse.

Cheers,

Alex
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