At 09:28 AM 2/16/00 +0100, Cornelis J. de Brabander wrote:
James W. Howe wrote... I have a situation where I'm searching a catalog for items which meet a criteria. The results are listed on one or more pages (using the batching feature of dtml-in). What I want to be able to do, but don't know how to do, is get the total count of items found. For example, when the first batch is displayed, I want to display a message which says something like
xx results found. 1-10 displayed.
How do I get the total number of items found from the search?
There are several predefined summary and other 'operators'. You want probably:
<dtml-var count-nnn> results found, <dtml-var sequence-step-start-index> - <dtml-var sequence-step-end-index> displayed.
I tried using your suggestion and I got 0 for the number of results found. In fact, 3 results were found and displayed. My loop looks basically like this: <dtml-in ArchiveCatalog size=numRecsShow start=qs> <dtml-if sequence-start> <dtml-var count-nnn> documents found matching your query: ... </dtml-if> [...] </dtml-in> Am I overlooking something obvious? Thanks. James W. Howe mailto:jwh@allencreek.com Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html Ann Arbor, MI 48103