[Zope] dtml-in question

James W. Howe jwh@allencreek.com
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:07:42 -0500


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		
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