[Product-Developers] Catalog search for a custom member type

[Andreas Jung]

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On 13.01.2009 10:59 Uhr, SimO wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have my custom member type (membrane+remember) which has a StringField
> named "categories"
> 
> and I need to filter my custom search on the content of this field.
> 
> I added index and metadata (both called "categories").
> 
> If I search for it with the basic Plone search, passing the category in
> the SearchableText index
> 
> I can find what I'm looking for but if I try to search passing the name
> of the field/index it doesn't work.
> 
> Here's the query that works: {'SearchableText': 'something', 'path':
> {'query': '/ic19'}, 'Type': 'MyMember'}
> 
> Here's the query that doesn't work: {'categories': 'something', 'path':
> {'query': '/ic19'}, 'Type': 'MyMember'

'categories' is what kind of index? Usually it should be a KEYWORD index
and likely you are supposed to query a keyword index with *sequence* of
strings and not with a string. Look at The Zope Book 2.7 edition for
further insight.

- -aj
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