[Zope] Help on ZCatalog

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Kevin Dangoor wrote:

>     One way to get started with searching a ZCatalog is to create a "Z
> Search Interface". This will give you a search form and a report. The report
> shows you how you can search. Some basic syntax you can use:
> 
> <dtml-in "Catalog({artistname: 'Buffett'})">
> ...stuff to display the results...
> <p><a href="<dtml-var "getpath(data_record_id_)">"><dtml-var title></a></p>
> </dtml-in>
> 
> You use the getpath function to get the URL of the cataloged object.

I wrote up a How-To yesterday on this topic if anyone needs more pointers.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/AdvZCatalogSearching

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