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METASEARCH
is deprecated in favour of the new and much more powerful query type search. See SEARCH and QuerySearch.
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
---|---|---|
type="topicmoved" | What sort of search is required? "topicmoved" if search for a topic that may have been moved "parent" if searching for topics that have a specific parent i.e. its children "field" if searching for topics that have a particular form field value (use the name and value parameters to specify which field to search). | Required |
web="%WEB%" | Wiki web to search: A web, a list of webs separated by whitespace, or all webs. | Current web |
topic="%TOPIC%" | The topic the search relates to, for topicmoved and parent searches | All topics in a web |
!| name
| form field to search, for field
type searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH). | | !| value
| form field value, for field
type searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH). | |
title="Title" | Text that is prefixed to any search results | empty |
!| format="..."
| Custom format results. Supports same format strings as SEARCH. See FormattedSearch for usage & examples | Results in table |
default="none" | Default text shown if no search hit | Empty |
%METASEARCH{ type="topicmoved" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title="This topic used to exist and was moved to: " }%You may want to use this in WebTopicViewTemplate and WebTopicNonWikiTemplate:
%METASEARCH{ type="parent" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title="Children: " }% %METASEARCH{ type="field" name="Country" value="China" }%
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