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I having trouble getting the search parameter to work in the weblog entries tag. I thought my version of EE might be too old but I am running 1.6.1 and the code for search definitely looks like it is in mod.weblog.php

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Here’s my code

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="video" site="default_site" search:video-description="2007" category="69&941;" paginate="both" limit="6"}

All the other parameters like categories and limits etc. are working fine but I still get all results back from the search.

I’m hoping there is something obvious wrong with it.

Thanks in advance

Emily

Emily,

I would recommend updating, as there have been security improvements, bug fixes and new features added since 1.6.1.

However, video-description is a valid custom field, with dates in it right?

Hi,

I’m working on the system admin to get him to update but until then I have been trying different things with the code but all still come back with everything.

I have created a blank template with just this code in and still get the same result.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="video" site="default_site" search:video-description="New Zealand" }

<h1>{title}</h1>
<h2>{url_title}</h2>
<p>{video-description}</p>

<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}

Here is an example video-description

DMIMD 2005 - Dr Dianne Webster, of Starship Childrens Health, Auckland, New Zealand, presents on ‘The Macphe Rewards Programme ‘. Part 2 of 2…Run Time 10:46

How hard is the update? The site I’m working on is live and very large (9 sites in MSM) and would be a nightmare if anything was to break!

Thanks

Emily

How hard is the update? The site I’m working on is live and very large (9 sites in MSM) and would be a nightmare if anything was to break!

The update should be relatively painless. I always make a backup of my database first, and then make sure my config.php file is writable.

Ok thanks, we are going to do it on a development server first and see how it goes!

Let us know what happens.

Ok, we did the upgrade and all went very smoothly, however this search function is still not working. Is it a piece of functionality that is not compatible with the MSM like the advanced search?

Here’s my code again - video-description is definitely the correct field name (although I hoped for a minute that it was that simple!)

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="video" site="default_site" search:video-description="2003" category="69&941;" paginate="both" limit="6"}

Thanks

Emily

Ok I’ve been testing and this is definitely a MSM issue as this code works perfectly on the default site but breaks on any other. I have reported it as a bug, but a quick fix would be really handy!

Bug Reported

Thanks

Emily

As an FYI to anyone reading in the future- we’ve got this one hashed out in the Bug forum.  Currently, the search parameter doesn’t work when using site.  See the linked bug thread for details and discussion of possible workarounds.