I've tried many variations, but I can't seem to get search results from my custom fields. I've tried one-line CustomFieldsSearch value=1, I've tried with one or more CustomFieldsSearchField lines... nothing works. I'm trying to do a simple text search of pages, searching title, body and several custom fields. I have MT Pro 4.37 and SearchCustomFields 1.0.2. Any ideas?
<form method="get" action="<$mt:CGIPath$><$mt:SearchScript$>">
<input type="text" size="30" id="mainsearch" class="ti" name="search" value="<$mt:SearchString$>" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearch" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchClassType" value="page" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchField" value="country" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchField" value="hq_city" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchField" value="twitter_handle" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchField" value="sma_tag" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchField" value="url" />
<mt:If name="search_results">
<input type="hidden" name="IncludeBlogs" value="<$mt:SearchIncludeBlogs$>" />
<mt:Ignore>
<!-- use these options only with MT::App::Search::Legacy -->
<ul class="search-options">
<li><input type="checkbox" name="CaseSearch" /> Case sensitive</li>
<li><input type="checkbox" name="RegexSearch" /> Regex search</li>
</ul>
</mt:Ignore>
<mt:Else>
<input type="hidden" name="IncludeBlogs" value="<$mt:BlogID$>" />
</mt:If>
<input type="hidden" name="limit" value="<$mt:SearchMaxResults$>" />
<input type="submit" accesskey="4" value="Search" id="mainsearchbutton" />
</form>
Reported on Movable Type 4.3
Make that CustomFieldsSearch 1.0.2. I'm getting cross-eyed looking at this.
Hi Nathan,
I'm using it on a project without any problem at all.
Make sure you follow precisely the instructions from the CustomFieldsSearch plugin.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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That's my challenge--it doesn't come with much documentation. The English site is offline (and limited, anyway), and the Japanese site doesn't quite spell out what to do.
I unpacked the file and put it in plugins; the MT console shows the plugin as active (at the system level--nothing at the blog level).
I've tried every combination of tags (copied from the site) that I can think of. I'm trying to apply a free-text search across the page (not entry) title, body, and 2 custom fields. Does it actually do that?
Inside the value attribute you shouldn't have the custom fields basenames, but the tag for that custom field.
For instance, for "country" you should have something like "EntryDataCountry".
When I set up the custom fields, I edited PageDataCountry to country. You think that confused things?
OK, I tried changing the template tags back (PageDataCountry, etc.). Still no luck.
All the comments I can find suggest that this plugin just works. I don't think I've changed that much from the default template, but it just doesn't work for me. Weird.
What is your current form coding?
Also, can I see the URL where I could test that implementation?
Eventually with a sample of what I should search for and what I should get...
The current code:
<form method="get" action="<$mt:CGIPath$><$mt:SearchScript$>"> <input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearch" value="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchClassType" value="page" /> <input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchField" value="PageDataCountry" /> <input type="hidden" name="CustomFieldsSearchField" value="PageDataHQCity" /> <input type="text" size="30" id="mainsearch" class="ti" name="search" value="<$mt:SearchString$>" /> <mt:If name="search_results"> <input type="hidden" name="IncludeBlogs" value="<$mt:SearchIncludeBlogs$>" /> <mt:Ignore> <!-- use these options only with MT::App::Search::Legacy --> <ul class="search-options"> <li><input type="checkbox" name="CaseSearch" /> Case sensitive</li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="RegexSearch" /> Regex search</li> </ul> </mt:Ignore> <mt:Else> <input type="hidden" name="IncludeBlogs" value="<$mt:BlogID$>" /> </mt:If> <input type="hidden" name="limit" value="<$mt:SearchMaxResults$>" /> <input type="submit" accesskey="4" value="Search" id="mainsearchbutton" /> </form>The site is here. A search for Spain should return at least one page (ASOMO, probably others).
Regular search works; if you search for "Spanish" you'll see a page where that appears in the body. It's just not picking up the custom fields.
I really appreciate your looking at this. It's the last thing that's keeping me from launching the site.
Can you test that also for an Entry?
Try creating one of those custom fields also for an entry, update the form for the entry CF tag and test it.
I'm wondering if this plugin works also for pages or not.
Of course, I assume that the plugin is not disabled :)
Well, I tried a test entry with an EntryDataCountry field, and it still didn't work.
Thanks for the attempt. Now I'm going to give up on the elegant solution and go with a workaround that works: copying the interesting bits from the custom fields into the Keywords field, which shows up in a regular search.
*sigh*