Getting Template Variables data to appear in search results using a Chunk???

Can anyone advise the non ajax search string i would need to use to search a selection of TVs and how to reference these TVs in a chunk which the results call using to display content?

This is my search call



This is the search results display call



And here is the code for the "searchResults" snippet




What currently happens is the search works, and pulls up the results, but the TV data is not rendered on screen.... Any ideas why?

Thanks so much!

&whereSearch=`content|tv:Product_Name` is not correct. For TVs the search occurs in a concatenation of all TV values linked to the document. To restrict the search to the TV Product_Name, use &withTV=`Product_name`
This parameter will restrict the tv_value used by whereSearch to the value of the Product_name TV.

So use &withTV=`Product_name` instead of &whereSearch=`content|tv:Product_Name`
As by default &whereSearch=`content|tv:tv_value` you can omit this parameter

Use &withTV=`Product_name` in the two snippet calls (input form document and landing document)


To retrieve Product_Name, Product_Photo_Thumb, Product_Description, ... keep &tvPhx=`’tv:displayTV’ to set up placeholders for each TV linked to the documents found.

coroico - thanks so much for your reply - I will have a go at implementing the bits and pieces you suggest and let you know how i get on! To clarify then, I don’t really need to specify which TVs to list - as i may as well let the search analyse them all. I just want the results to display a few which i identify in the chunk. Is that correct?

Could you possibly amend the code that i have used so that it would work? I have just gone through and amending the code on the site and am still having the same issues... There must be something really obvious that I am missing here... Thanks again!

landing page:

Thanks coroico

What would the calls be in the Chunk then? Would they remain as i have them already?

What would the calls be in the Chunk then? Would they remain as i have them already?

Yes.

By using, &tvPhx=`’tv:displayTV’ you set up placeholders for each TV linked to the documents found.

&tvPhx : Set placeHolders for TV (template variables)

* 0 : disallow the feature
* ’tv:displayTV’ : set up placeholders for each TV (named tvName) linked to the documents found (default)

Placeholders for TVs are:

* [+as.tvName+], [+as.tvNameShow+], [+as.tvNameClass+]

Where tvName is the MODx name of a TV

* [+as.tvName+] is the HTML output of your TV
* [+as.tvNameShow+] = 1 if the TV is not NULL
* [+as.tvNameClass+] :

- ajaxSearch_resultTvName for the non ajax results (&tplResult)
- AS_ajax_resultTvName for the ajax window (&tplAjaxResult)

e.g: AS_ajax_resultAsTag1, a tv named "asTag1" (take care, the first letter of tvName should be here an upper case) displayTV is a provided ajaxSearch function which render the Modx TV output. Don’t change the name!

So you could use:
[+as.Product_Name+], [+as.Product_NameShow+], [+as.Product_NameClass+]
[+as.Product_Photo_Thumb+],[+as.Product_Photo_ThumbShow+],[+as.Product_Photo_ThumbClass+],
[+as.Product_Description+],[+as.Product_DescriptionShow+],[+as.Product_DescriptionClass+]
...

You are a true legend!!! You are my new hero! Thanks for helping with this - it all makes sense now!

It appears that template variables only show up if they match the searched term. Is there a way to pull in all template variables when a document is matched?

For instance, if document A is matched, the results would pull in all template variables for document A. I would also need all templage variables pulled in for Document A if one of it’s template variables matched, but Document A didn’t.

Also, the results seem to be heavily weighted on the content. I have some documents where all the template variables match, but no content matches (so 2-3 matches in the template variables), but those get outranked by one match in the content. Seems to me like the multiple template variable matches would rank higher.

James

It appears that template variables only show up if they match the searched term. Is there a way to pull in all template variables when a document is matched?

Not without hacking the code. The next release will display all tvs when a document is matched, even if the tv don’t match.

Also, the results seem to be heavily weighted on the content. I have some documents where all the template variables match, but no content matches (so 2-3 matches in the template variables), but those get outranked by one match in the content. Seems to me like the multiple template variable matches would rank higher.

Ok, I will try to check this point, but as I have strongly redesigned the snippet, I will prefer do the tests on the next release (1.9 currently in development).