Hi all,
I'm using WebSTAR V, 4D Server 2003.7 Release 2, and Active 4D
v.3.0.1b7, and all is well.
I would be interested to hear anyone's thoughts about the best way to
arrange complex web searches.
Typically, if I want to offer a web search facility that uses related
tables, or several criteria, then I will adopt the following strategy:
1. Provide a form to gather the search criteria
2. Direct on to a process page which puts the criteria into session
items
3. Direct on to a results page which uses a library method to search
using the session contents.
This works fairly fast and allows me to keep a record of the criteria
for future use (for example displaying them in the search form).
Now I need to set up another search, but this time the criteria
involved include about 25 different tickboxes. If I follow the same
method as above then I could create session items for each one that is
ticked and delete session items for those not ticked; or I could have
session items for all of them indicating whether ticked or not. But
it's getting to seem like a lot of messing about.
How does anyone else handle this type of thing?
Many thanks,
David Wright
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