Item1682: SEARCH does not work well with format being blank

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Priority: Normal
Current State: Closed
Released In: 1.0.6
Target Release: patch
Applies To: Engine
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Reported By: KennethLavrsen
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Last Change By: KennethLavrsen
SEARCH with a format works very differently from a SEARCH without.

The current code will see format not defined the same way as format=""

And normally we did not care.

But with the new footer and $nhits and $ntopics feature the use of an empty format suddenly makes a lot of sense.

You can use a construct like format="" footer"$ntopics" separator="" to put the number of topics that matches a search anywhere you want incl inside tables.

I saw today this used where someone put an html <nop> in the format.

It is silly that you end up maybe with 300 nops. Thay may be invisible but they can also create trouble - especially in a nested search.

The fix is to treat format="" exactly as it should be expected. It is a bug that an empty format means no format. An empty format is a format.

It is easy to fix both in trunk and in release branch and I am running the last unit tests as I write this report.

Fix will be in 1.0.6.

-- KennethLavrsen - 03 Jun 2009

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Summary SEARCH does not work well with format being blank
ReportedBy KennethLavrsen
Codebase 1.0.5, trunk
SVN Range Foswiki-1.0.0, Thu, 08 Jan 2009, build 1878
AppliesTo Engine
Component
Priority Normal
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor
Checkins distro:0c638d7ce628 distro:5bb19c6c4db4
TargetRelease patch
ReleasedIn 1.0.6
Topic revision: r5 - 22 Jun 2009, KennethLavrsen
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