[Zope] ZCatalog and dates

[Andy McKay]

Are your dates actually of type date or string? If they are dates make sure
your date index is a keyword index and that the input is also of type date.
--
  Andy McKay, Developer.
  ActiveState.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Sintz" <jsintz@ohiohistory.org>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:37 AM
Subject: [Zope] ZCatalog and dates


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> I have a ZCatalog set up to index a date field and a title field.
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> When I do a search for meta_type "news" I get a tabular list back of all
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> cataloged items showing, among other things the date field (goLiveDate)
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> the title field.
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> If I do a search for both meta_type of "news" a date of 2000/11/16 in the
> goLiveDate field the results page returns "There was no data matching this
> Catalog query". Yet when I do a search for the meta_type of "news" alone I
> see that indeed the Catalog contains 2 entries with 2000/11/16 in the
> goLiveDate field.
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> Why doesn't it find any entries when I search by date?
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