Item8456: Blanks in form field names are cropped in search

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Enhancement	Closed	Engine	QuerySearch, SEARCH, Documentation

-- IngoWolf - 02 Feb 2010

If a form field has a name with blanks like [[form field]] - when searching for this, you need to search for formfield, as the blank is cropped. I dont find this in documentation of SEARCH so I put it here.

-- IngoWolf - 02 Feb 2010

It is documented in DataForms under Field Name Notes:

You can space out the title of the field, and it will still find the topic e.g. Aeroplane Manufacturers is equivalent to AeroplaneManufacturers. 

-- MartinKaufmann - 02 Feb 2010

Thanks Martin. We seem to get this type of question on IRC every now and then; and even some plugin authors seem to be unaware that field names can be links (Eg. RenderFormPlugin doesn't handle this well at all).

So I would close this but would like it to be made into an FAQ item.

-- PaulHarvey - 02 Feb 2010

Created Support.Faq14. I still think the [<nop>[FieldName][Descriptive human-friendly Field Name]] needs to be made more obvious in the DataForms topic.

-- PaulHarvey - 02 Feb 2010

Ack. I found this doc, but late as it was not very upfront positioned. And Paul is right, that [<nop>[FieldName][Descriptive human-friendly Field Name]] should be explained somewhere.

-- IngoWolf - 03 Feb 2010