-----Original Message----- From: Joseph Santaniello [mailto:someone@arbitrary.org] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 4:22 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Novice Question: Text search of DTML Documents and Methods?

Hi Everyone,

I've just started working with Zope, and it seems I've had a bit of bad timing with the moving of the documentation and stuff on the new web-site; I'm having trouble finding stuff. So my apologies if the answers I'm looking for are right under my nose somewhere. ;-)

Is there some documented way of searching the contents of Zope Folders and Documents? And if so, can one search within properties as well? And if not, where would be the best place to start for implementing this?

Zope 2.0b has a notion of ZCatalog. A ZCatalog is an object that can store text and field indexes of Zope objects. You can, for example, ask a Catalog to text index the contents of all your DTML Documents, or to field index all the objects with the property 'favorite_color'. Then you can create search forms to call the catalog and get a list of objects which match your search criteria. It's really far more powerful than that, but that should get your started. -Michel

Many thanks,

Joe

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