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internal package Foswiki::UI::Search

UI functions for searching.

StaticMethod search( $session )

Deprecated - now redirects to WebSearch topic.

Perform a search as dictated by CGI parameters:

Parameter:	Description:	Default:
"text"	Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search or regular expression search, depending on the type parameter. SearchHelp has more	required
search="text"	(Alternative to above)	N/A
web="Name" web="Main, Know" web="all"	Comma-separated list of webs to search. The special word all means all webs that do not have the NOSEARCHALL variable set to on in their WebPreferences. You can specifically exclude webs from an all search using a minus sign - for example, web="all,-Secretweb".	Current web
topic="WebPreferences" topic="*Bug"	Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma.	All topics in a web
excludetopic="Web*" excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges"	Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma.	None
type="keyword" type="literal" type="regex"	Do a keyword search like soap "web service" -shampoo; a literal search like web service; or RegularExpression search like soap;web service;!shampoo	%SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE% preferences setting (literal)
scope="topic" scope="text" scope="all"	Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (both)	"text"
order="topic" order="created" order="modified" order="editby" order=  "formfield(name)"	Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, or named field of DataForms. The sorting is done web by web; in case you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort	Sort by topic name
limit="all" limit="16"	Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if order is specified	All results
date="..."	limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given TimeInterval.	All results
reverse="on"	Reverse the direction of the search	Ascending search
casesensitive="on"	Case sensitive search	Ignore case
bookview="on"	BookView search, e.g. show complete topic text	Show topic summary
nonoise="on"	Shorthand for nosummary="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" zeroresults="off" noheader="on" noempty="on"	Off
nosummary="on"	Show topic title only	Show topic summary
nosearch="on"	Suppress search string	Show search string
noheader="on"	Suppress search header Topics: Changed: By:	Show search header
nototal="on"	Do not show number of topics found	Show number
zeroresults="off"	Suppress all output if there are no hits	zeroresults="on", displays: "Number of topics: 0"
noempty="on"	Suppress results for webs that have no hits.	Show webs with no hits
header="..." format="..."	Custom format results: see FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples	Results in table
expandvariables="on"	Expand variables before applying a FormattedSearch on a search hit. Useful to show the expanded text, e.g. to show the result of a SpreadSheetPlugin %CALC{}% instead of the formula	Raw text
multiple="on"	Multiple hits per topic. Each hit can be formatted. The last token is used in case of a regular expression ";" and search	Only one hit per topic
nofinalnewline="on"	If on, the search variable does not end in a line by itself. Any text continuing immediately after the search tag on the same line will be rendered as part of the table generated by the search, if appropriate.	off
separator=", "	Line separator between hits	Newline "$n"