On Friday 29 March 2002 07:13 pm, kedai@kedai.com.my wrote:

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I'm sure this has been covered, but I can't find an answer.

I need to perform a search across three different fields in my zcatalog. Currently, the only way I can see to do this is with three distinct form fields. I wish to have my users enter their query in only one form field, and still search each of the three zcatalog indices.

Any suggestions?

zope 2.5.1b1 in pythonscript, concat the result of the query like so

o=getattr(context,'Catalog') r=o(index1={'query':'myquery'}) + o(index2={'query':'query2'}) return r

there maybe better ways, but thsi is how i did it

this works, but adds some extra overhead as you go through the entire zcatalog query process several times. you can search a catalog on multiple indexes by passing each index name and its query args as keyword names to the catalog... ie for a simple case the above translates to o(index1=query, index2=query2) thus the full catalog search machinery is invoked only once and internally (and more efficiently) the catalog will merge the results as per the original question, use a python script to break up the form input appropriately to search the individual indexes. -kapil