Problems with CUSTOMSEARCH.FIL

[skinnybloke]

Hi - I am probebly doing something stupid here...

I am trying to set-up a custom search using the info on P57 of the advanced manual. If I run the following code the search works:

http://www.enjoy.theoriginalsin.co.u...&ACTION=Search

I then take a copy of the customsearch.fil and rename it to customsearch2.fil and upload. Before I make my mods I thought I would make sure this works so I add &SN=2 to the code above to access this file. So the code is now as follows:

http://www.enjoy.theoriginalsin.co.u...&ACTION=Search

When I try to run it I get the error message:

Missing text search join mode. Please specify AND or OR

Help!

[skinnybloke]

...and this is the current content of my CUSTOMSEARCH.FIL and CUSTOMSEARCH2.FIL

1
Price!PR
Text!SS!TB
Or
Text Property!S_GiftFinder1_0
Or
Text Property!S_Department1_1
Or
Text Property!S_Location11_2
Or
Text Property!S_Location21_3
Or
Text Property!S_Location31_4
Or
Text Property!S_Location41_5
Or
Text Property!S_Location51_6
Or

[Bruce]

David,

You need to make the mods for the link to work. If you have a quick read down the article, you will see that you need to make some changes for it to work, the error message too gets covered in the article.

Kind regards,

[skinnybloke]

Hi Bruce - not having much luck with this - I must be doing something really stupid!! I have created a test page and stripped the code down to the minimum and I now get the error message "Undefined Property in search (TestItem)"

My customsearch2.fil is now:

1
Text Property!TestItem

and my search html file is now:

<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="http://www.enjoy.theoriginalsin.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl">
<input type=HIDDEN name="PAGE" value="SEARCH">
<input type=HIDDEN name="SN" value="2">
<select size="1" name="TestItem">
<option value="" selected>Please Choose</option>
<option value="Mobile Disco">Mobile Disco</option>
<option value="Catering">Catering</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name=ACTION value="go">
</form>

This can be seen via this link:

http://www.enjoy.theoriginalsin.co.u...empsearch.html

[Bruce]

Correct this line..

1
Text Property!TestItem

To

1
Text Property!S_TestItem1_0

Then :

<select size="1" name="TestItem">

To

<select size="1" name="S_TestItem1_0">

and:

<option value="" selected>Please Choose</option>

To

<option value="Please Choose" selected>Please Choose</option>

Then try it and let us know how it goes.

Kind regards,

[skinnybloke]

I have changed them as you have suggested but it is exactly the same I'm afraid. Originally I had it set-up with the parameters like you have suggested but I changed them to try to find the source of the problem

[skinnybloke]

Hi - anybody any ideas on how I can get a solution to this as it is getting quite urgent.

Is it a bug? If so is there a workaround to it?

[Bruce]

David,

I would suggest raising a support ticket, so a member of the support team can take a look at this for you. Support ticket @ http://www.actinic.co.uk/support/register.htm

Kind regards,

[skinnybloke]

Bruce - I have done that - I will keep the board informed of the outcome.

[skinnybloke]

Hi - for anybody who may also have this problem...this is how it was fixed.

I was editing the customsearch2.fil in Homesite - my HTML editor. This appears to be adding additional hidden characters to the lines which was breaking the search. I re-created the customsearch2.fil in notepad which has solved the problem.

[richardh9999]

Hi - for anybody who may also have this problem...this is how it was fixed.

I was editing the customsearch2.fil in Homesite - my HTML editor. This appears to be adding additional hidden characters to the lines which was breaking the search. I re-created the customsearch2.fil in notepad which has solved the problem.

THANKS !! That certainly helped me one step further to getting my idea to work ! (notepad often seems best !)

[skinnybloke]

Glad to be of help!