[Zope] Searching ZCatalog on multiple properties

[Andy McKay]

Ah sorry, yes uniqueValuesFor just returns the index straight from ZCatalog
without any filtering, no matter you put, its not going to filter. Either
change the behaviour of ZCatalog or do a much more expensive query that
filters the results.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Muldrow" <muldrow@mac.com>
To: "Andy McKay" <andym@activestate.com>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Searching ZCatalog on multiple properties


> I see what you're getting at, but I don't think I was specific enough in
my
> question. What I want to do is limit the names shown to the user before
they
> actually make a search. Right now, the uniqueValuesFor('User') queries all
> of the stories in the catalog and returns a Select list of all of the
Users
> who have written stories. I want to limit that Select list rather than
only
> limiting the search results.
>
>
>
> on 2/15/01 2:39 PM, Andy McKay at andym@ActiveState.com wrote:
>
> > Setting variables in the REQUEST is bad but always works reliably. These
can
> > be set in the form that posts to the search (see Zope.org) or as a last
> > resort do:
> >
> > <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('Column', 'Category')">
> > <dtml-in NewsCatalog>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andy McKay.
>
>
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