Feature Proposal: SEARCH needs an alt parameter in case of zero results
Motivation
Often I want to display an alternative text if SEARCH does not return any results.
Description and Documentation
While the docco is totally vague about what happens when you combine the 2 :/
So I'm thinking that we can take the opportunity to turn
zeroresults
into a
format
field too
ie,
-
zeroresults="$count results found"
would work..
-
zeroresults="off"
would show nothing as now
-
zeroresults="on"
would show the total
when = 0 independently of =nototal
what this means, is that
zeroresults
over-rides the
nototal
and
nonoise
options - as happes with the other parameters
(
wow more docco and tests needed for the combinations)
Examples
Impact
Implementation
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Contributors: ArthurClemens - 05 Feb 2009
Discussion
I agree. I added a similar idea to
Tasks.Item883 the other week:
While the docco is totally vague about what happens when you combine the 2 :/
So I'm thinking that we can take the opportunity to turn
zeroresults
into a
format
field too
ie,
-
zeroresults="$count results found"
would work..
-
zeroresults="off"
would show nothing as now
-
zeroresults="on"
would show the total
when = 0 independently of =nototal
(basically, it would be better if
zeroresults
could be used to optionally over-ride
nonoise
when otherwise you just get a blank page.)
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SvenDowideit - 05 Feb 2009
updating and adding Arthur & me as dev's - in case we want to do this quickly for the release.
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SvenDowideit - 06 Mar 2010
Fine with me. I support the "zeroresults as format" solution.
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ArthurClemens - 06 Mar 2010
Sounds good to me.
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CrawfordCurrie - 09 Mar 2010
+1 from me. I needed this just 2 days ago. 14-day period expires the 20th.
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KennethLavrsen - 11 Mar 2010
Accepted
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KennethLavrsen - 22 Mar 2010
done
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SvenDowideit - 29 Mar 2010