Thank you Gilles for your response. I made the changes you suggested and it still does not work. I wonder if it is the combination of the two lists I built that is the problem.
build_select_lists: RESTRICT_LIST restrict restrict_names 2 1 2 restrict "" \
EXCLUDE_LIST,checkbox exclude exclude_names 2 1 2 exclude ""
restrict_names: "" "Austin City Connection" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/budget/" "Budget" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/" "Council" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/" "Library" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/minutes/" "Minutes" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/news/" "News" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/police/" "Police" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/" "Solid Waste Services" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/watershed/" "Watershed Protection"
exclude_names: "http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/agenda/" "Council Agenda" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/" "Council Transcripts" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/minutes/" "Council Minutes" \
"http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/news/" "News"
My form for the html is as follows:
<form method="get" action="$(CGI)"><input type="hidden" name="config" value="$&(CONFIG)">
<table bgcolor="#BCB6A0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC" width="96"><p>Search for:</p></td>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC" width="208">
<input type="text" size="25" name="words" value="$(WORDS)"></td>
<td colspan="2" align="center" valign="middle"><p><input type="submit" value="Search">
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC"><p>Search in:</p></td>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC" colspan="3">$(RESTRICT_LIST)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC"><p>Match:</p></td>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC">$(METHOD)</td>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC" width="96"><p>Format:</p></td>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC" width="207">$(FORMAT)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" bgcolor="#EAE8DC"><p>
If you elect to search all of Austin City Connection, you may want to exclude one or more of the following directories. These large directories make it difficult to target documents.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC" valign="top"><p>Exclude:</p></td>
<td bgcolor="#EAE8DC" valign="top" colspan="3">$(EXCLUDE_LIST)</form></td>
</tr>
The Restrict list works, the Exclude list does not.
Thanks again for your help. I have the search engine so close to working like I want it.
Carlos Lowry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Austin City Connection
-----Original Message-----
From: Gilles Detillieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:45 PM
To: Lowry, Carlos
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [htdig] Help building a select list
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I am trying to build a select list to exclude certain directories from the
> search. I want it to be a row of checkboxes with text after them. I was able
> to make a select list pulldown to restrict the search to certain
> directories, but this seems to be beyond me. I do not understand the
> "tuple" information so that could be it. I also suspect that since the text
> that I have in the 2nd set of quotes in the names list does not go in the
> tag itself that may be the problem.
>
>
>
> build_select_lists: EXCLUDE_LIST,checkbox exclude exclude_names
> 2 1 2 exclude "" \
Assuming the line above was wrapped by the mail program, and is in fact
just one line in your config file, it's correct except for the trailing
backslash. The trailing backslash means "continued on next line", so it
should appear at the end of all but the last line of a multi-line definition.
> exclude_names: "http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/agenda/" "Council Agenda" \
> "http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/"
> "Council Transcripts" \
> "http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/minutes/"
> "Council Minutes" \
> "http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/news/" "News" \
The same goes for this definition, again assuming the mail program caused
the wrapping after council/ and minutes/. The final backslash after "News"
should be removed.
--
Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
