Re: [ic] Action Map - basics?

[Ton Verhagen <suppressed>]

Quoting Simon <suppressed> :
> [snip]
> I am hoping to be able to display news items using URLs as follows:
>
> www.domain.com/storename/news/Hammers
> or
> www.domain.com/storename/news/Nails
>
> My ActionMap (added to catalog.cfg) looks like:
>
> ActionMap  news  <<EOR
> sub {
>        my ($action, $category) = split ('/', shift);
>        $CGI->{mv_todo} ='search';
>        $CGI->{mv_nextpage} = 'resultsnews';
>        $CGI->{mv_search_file} = 'News';
>        $CGI->{mv_searchtype} = 'db';
>        $CGI->{mv_coordinate} = 'yes';
>        $CGI->{mv_return_fields} = 'code';
>        $CGI->{mv_matchlimit} = '10';
>        $CGI->{mv_sort_field} = 'category';
>        $CGI->{mv_sort_option} = 'f,n';
>        $CGI->{mv_search_field} = 'category';
>        $CGI->{mv_searchspec} = "$category";
>        $CGI->{banner_text} = "$category";
>        $Tag->update('process');
>        return 1;
> }
> EOR
>
> I am stuck trying to get anything to show up in the resultsnews page.
>
> Can someone please advise what loop or list code I need to add to 
> the resultsnews.html page to pull in the news items for selected 
> categories and the correct tag to pull in data from the news table fields?


I have implemented similar but more complex things as you
described above. For this I simply use a [search-list] construct
and [item-param ...] tags on the results pages.

What ITL are you using on your  resultsnews page?

Have a look at mv_return_fields also...


Best regards,

Ton

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