[Zope] ZCatalog: setting default to AND (not OR).

[Andy McKay]

Either a) fiddle with ZCatalog so it does or
b) add in an "and" in between search terms before the catalog a crude way
could be

_.string.join(_.string.split(_.str(query),' '), ' and ' )

And thanks for the holiday wishes but we had Thanksgiving a month ago in
Canada :)

--
  Andy McKay, Developer.
  ActiveState.

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Doctor What" <docwhat@gerf.org>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] ZCatalog: setting default to AND (not OR).


> I'm sorry.  I seem to have not explained myself very well.
>
> I want ZCatalog to use AND by default.  I think the extended
> behaviour, being able to AND and OR keywords together is fine.  I'm
> only concerned with the default behaviour (with *no* OR or AND
> keywords).
>
> When I first used zope.org's search engine, I couldn't figure out
> why if searched for "zcatalog siteaccess" it gave me (seemingly)
> every article on the site except the one(s) I wanted.
>
> It's because I expected AND to be the default (the union) of the two
> terms, not an OR list.  Frankly, I don't think OR is useful at all
> by it self.  It's usually with an AND that it's most useful.
>
> But that's just my humble opinion.  Oh wait, I don't do humble....so
> that's just my opinion. ;-)
>
> I wish everyone a happy holiday, whether it's Thanksgiving or
> "Laborday/Thanksgiving" (as NPR said Japan was having).
>
> Ciao!
>
> > > All good usability books (I'm going to just cite one: "Designing Web
> > > Usability: The Practice of Simplicity" by Jakob Nielsen
> > > http://www.useit.com/jakob/webusability/ ) say searches should be
> > > ANDed by default.
> > >
> > > ZCatalog is ORed by default.  How do I change this behavior?
> > >
> > > Ciao!
> > >
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