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Jul 12, 2008, 10:40 AM

ranjan

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Jul 12, 2008, 10:40 AM

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Using "OR" if the "AND" Boolean setting produces no results.

How would one go about setting up a search so that if Zero results are found using "AND", to search again using an "OR" search. I am using Glinks 3.2.0. Any help is appreciated.

Jul 12, 2008, 11:27 AM

Andy

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Jul 12, 2008, 11:27 AM

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Hi,

Mmm.. thats pretty hard. It would require a plugin, to hook into the search hook, and then see if no results were found (and a "query" was defined) ... and then if not pass in an OR condition.

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Jul 12, 2008, 7:06 PM

tandat

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Jul 12, 2008, 7:06 PM

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Hi,

I am not sure if this is ok for you but it works for this case. Please just add the below code into your search.html template

Code:
<%if term and bool eq 'and'%> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html> 
<head> 
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=<%db_cgi_url%>/search.cgi?query=<%term%>;bool=or;substring=<%if substing%><%substing%><%endif%><%if mh%>;mh=<%mh%><%endif%>"> 
</head> 
<body> 
<p>Trying to search again!</p> 
</body> 
</html> 
<%else%> 
.... current search .template 

<%endif%>

Cheers,

Dat

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Jul 13, 2008, 12:06 AM

Andy

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Jul 13, 2008, 12:06 AM

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Good idea - why didn't I think of that Tongue

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