Filtering Search By Result Subfolder

[jcbeck]

I have a similar question to this: http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2674

I believe the difference may lie in quantity. There are hundreds of directories each with hundreds of PDF files. Do categories rely on adding META tags to files?

I'd like to be able to dynamically filter down to just one of the subdirectories based on who is doing the searching. I'd like to maintain proper paging if possible. I can do the ASP coding but I'm not sure if there's a way to update search.asp to do the filtering before getting down to displaying the results.

[jcbeck]

Here's what I'm adding to search.asp

...

            [B]REM use cookie, querystring, hidden form field or drop down etc
            REM to provide desired subfolder
            dim mySubDirectory
            mySubDirectory = "/client-a/"[/B]

...

                    ' AND search, filter out non-matching results
                    IsFiltered = True
                end if
            end if
            
            [B]REM jcb 7/28/08
            REM get the URL and filter on directory
            if len(mysubdir) > 0 and (IsFiltered = False) Then
                pgdata = GetPageData(zoomit)
                url = pgdata(PAGEDATA_URL)

                if instr(url,mysubdir) = 0 then
                    IsFiltered = True
                end if
            end if [/B]

            if (IsFiltered = False) then
                ' copy if not filtered out
                redim preserve output(5, oline)

...

[Ray]

Do categories rely on adding META tags to files?

No, categories can be specified based on text that appears within the URL (substring match) either in the folder name or filename, OR meta tags within the files.

See the "Categories" chapter in the Users Guide for more information.

[jcbeck]

I guess the problem I had with categories was just that they'd need to be created for every new subfolder I added, which is in the hundreds. And it would require console administration to add those categories. The code I added works, but perhaps it has affected the "matches" count. It seemed to me in the code that the result count was only factored in after filtering, so my code wouldn't break it, but I guess I'm wrong about that.

[Ray]

Your code change should not affect the "matches" count I think, but that's just going by a brief look at your code.

Note that we can not provide support for any custom code changes to the default script, and you will need to port your changes over to later revisions of the script should there be bug fixes etc.

[jcbeck]

Thanks - reordering my code did fix counting. I'm now looking into CGI options anyway...