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METASEARCH -- special search of meta data
- Syntax:
%METASEARCH{...}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: | type="..." | Type of search: • "topicmoved" - search for a topic that may have been moved. • "parent" - search for topics that have a specific parent i.e. its children. • "field" - search for topics that have a particular form field value (use the name and value parameters to specify which field to search). | Required | web="%WEB%" | Wiki web to search: A web, a list of webs separated by whitespace, or all webs. | Current web | topic="%TOPIC%" | The topic the search relates to. | Current topic | name="..." | form field to search, for type="field" searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH). | | value="..." | form field value, for type="field" searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH). | | title="Title" | Text that is prefixed to any search results. | "" (empty) | format="..." | Custom format of each search hit. Supports same format strings as SEARCH. See FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples | "$topic" | separator="..." | Separator between search hits. | "$n" (newline) | default="none" | Default text shown if no search hit. | "" (empty) |
- Example:
%METASEARCH{type="topicmoved" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title="This topic used to exist and was moved to: "}%
- Example: You may want to use this in WebTopicViewTemplate and WebTopicNonWikiTemplate:
%METASEARCH{type="parent" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title="Children: "}%
- Example:
%METASEARCH{type="field" name="Country" value="China"}%
- Note: METASEARCH is deprecated in favor of the much more powerful query type search. See SEARCH and QuerySearch.
- Category: SearchingAndListingVariables, SystemInformationVariables
- Related: CHILDREN, EDITFORM, EDITFORMFIELD, FORM, FORMFIELD, META, PARENTTOPIC, SEARCH
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