Category Wildcards

ksalt · Post by **ksalt** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:33 am

We have several aliases for each mission on our site, to avoid the problem of people using caps. all-caps, or lower-case. We also have (naturally) direct paths to the files. Unfortunately, successive web designers have chosen different ways of referring to a mission so :-

http://www.rssd.esa.int/Gaia/index.html
http://www.rssd.esa.int/GAIA/index.html
http://www.rssd.esa.int/gaia/index.html
http://www.rssd.esa.int/SA-general/Proj ... index.html

All refer to the same page ... and I want to do a project-based categorisation ... so ... my question ...

I can see that using URL/sub-dir/* works when defining categories, but is it possible to use a construction like */sub-dir/* ??

ksalt · Post by **ksalt** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 5:43 am

Hey ... no need to answer - I tried it and it works .. it also works with sub-strings like *Compu* ... I love it !!

Now can I refine it any further using regexp expressions like *[Cc]ompu* perhaps ???

Post by **Kai** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 2:21 pm

You can't use regular expressions or REX, but you can give multiple wildcard expressions per category, separated by spaces. Eg.:

*compu* *Compu*

ksalt · Post by **ksalt** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:32 am

Thanks Kai and John ... I think I'll take a look at Vortex scripting and see if I can get my head around using a regexp ... I need to know how the cosding works anyway, so now's the time to get stuck in ...

OTOH - I also discovered the "ignore case in URLs" option. Setting that to "yes" gives me the equivalent of a capitalisation regexp ... i.e. *xeus* matches *Xeus* and *XEUS* as well ...

Next step .. designing treed categories

xeus -- xmm -- rosita >> Xray-Spectrum >>--->>
GAIA --hipparcos -- hubble >> Visual Spectrum >>--->> Astrophysics Division
Planck -- Herschel >> Microwave Spectrum >>--->>

Permitting me to offer -

Search this Mission
Search this Frequency Band
Search the Division
Search Whole Site

mmcfadden · Post by **mmcfadden** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 3:56 pm

Are there any other expressions that can be used in the Category field that aren't in the documentation like
*/?ompu*. It is a great option to be able to use a question mark in this example are there others?

Post by **mark** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 4:08 pm

Sorry, no. We might normally use a rex expression for things like that but it was simplified for the masses. An adventurous person could modify the dowalk script functions findcat and recat to use rex.

ksalt · Post by **ksalt** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:30 am

Hmmm ... I return ...

I'm reworking our site as a database-backend, PHP-driven system, so my urls are all turning into things like http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?ptoject=TOP&page=pubs ... and now I have a new version of the old problem.

It would seem that the search is not correctly categorising urls with a query string. It will handle things like *compu* for all urls which contain "computing" **in the main url string** but not where it occurs in the query string.

Is there a trick, or do I need to REALLY learn Vortex scripting this time ???

Thanks in advance ...

Post by **mark** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:47 pm

The entire url is considered when looking for category matches. Make sure "Strip queries" is off.