Great!

I will remember this... especially now that I am using Wonder. Lot of stuff in 
here.

James





On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:17 PM, David Holt wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I needed to include an OR search on a component that had been created using 
> the queryMatch functionality of WODisplayGroup.
> 
> As you know if you create such things, by default any values included in the 
> queryMatch search fields are joined in "AND" searches by default. This is a 
> limitation that I've tried to work around without resorting to 
> programatically setting the qualifier and fetch on the displayGroup for a 
> very long time.
> 
> In my travels I discovered that ERXDisplayGroup in Wonder allows you to add 
> qualifiers to the WODisplayGroup's generated qualifier.  Instead of using 
> queryMatch on the relevant fields I used a local variable to then 
> programatically create the OR qualifier I needed. If you use the method 
> "setQualifierForKey" you add your new qualifier(s) to a dictionary called 
> _extraQualifiers. These are added to the generated qualifierFromQueryValues 
> just before the displayGroup is qualified. After the DG is qualified, you may 
> want to reset the _extraQualifiers dictionary using clearExtraQualifiers.
> 
> Anyway, it is really slick because it saved me having to code the search page 
> by hand and I wanted to point it out since I didn't see anything obvious in 
> the archives about the use of these methods.
> 
> David

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