Re: Deciding how to start building a search form

[Nick]

Thanks adam, that was the direction I was looking for.

On Feb 23, 4:57 pm, Andy McKay  wrote:
> On 2010-02-23, at 12:50 PM, Nick wrote:
>
> > Anyways, what I'm wondering is, should I build this up by hand or
> > should I use something like haystack?  I am only querying against a DB
> > and not en entire site.
>
> Doing a search on one model is pretty straightforward. If however you need to 
> do full text searches or searches on more than one model at a time, then you 
> will need something like haystack.
> --
>   Andy McKay, @clearwind
>  http://clearwind.ca/djangoski

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Re: Deciding how to start building a search form

[Andy McKay]

On 2010-02-23, at 12:50 PM, Nick wrote:
> Anyways, what I'm wondering is, should I build this up by hand or
> should I use something like haystack?  I am only querying against a DB
> and not en entire site.

Doing a search on one model is pretty straightforward. If however you need to 
do full text searches or searches on more than one model at a time, then you 
will need something like haystack.
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  Andy McKay, @clearwind
  http://clearwind.ca/djangoski

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Deciding how to start building a search form

[Nick]

I have seen many messages about this but I am at a loss for what to
do.  Currently I am building a DB of state representatives.  This DB
has to other tables besides that of the actual representative. Those
tables are for committees those members are part off.  I use
manytomany and foreign key relationships to match Reps to their
committees.

What I am looking to do is build a search form that will allow me to
query against the DB with several advanced search options for "type of
representative (senate or congress)" "home town" "district" "last
name".  A few of these will be boolean/checkbox fields and some will
be text fields.

Anyways, what I'm wondering is, should I build this up by hand or
should I use something like haystack?  I am only querying against a DB
and not en entire site.

Thanks in advance,

Nick

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