[support] CCK Field Search

[Neil: esl-lounge.com]

I have to admit I saw your message yesterday and didn't respond with the 
Views idea because I presumed you'd already considered it and dismissed it. 
Sorry! :-)

You could always expose the fields and have results returned "If Contains: 
Enter Keyword Here". Nothing will get returned AND you'll have a nice user 
friendly instruction already entered in the text box.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Jones" <fredthejonester at gmail.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [support] CCK Field Search


>> Try looking into views_fastsearch.module.  It lets you leverage the 
>> search
>> module's database for Views' exposed filters, creating a reasonably good
>> facsimile of a per-field search.
>
> I presume you mean to look into modifying the code, because AFAICT
> this module only provides a general search on all fields within the
> CCK nodes, but it can't be defined to search only only on one field.
>
> On the other hand, in examining this, I have realized that I can
> create a view and expose a filter for each CCK field in question. This
> allows users to effectively search on those fields. The only issue now
> is to style the search fields and also, to set it up so that when the
> view first loads, no nodes appear (as opposed to ALL nodes appearing
> because no search terms were setup). For that I think I could hack the
> Views code.
>
> Seems like this could be the easiest way actually. :)
>
> Unless someone has a better idea.
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
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