Query Help (Please)

sibbersd
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Query Help (Please)

Post by sibbersd »

We are having difficulty getting the appliance to return accurate results and would like help with using rex or regex (or some other method) to query specific elements.

What we would really like to do is set up our own meta information, index that, and query by meta field, i.e., "search?meta1=something&meta2=somethingelse..." but it seems that is not possible. I've played around with Additional Fields, which sort of works, but we have many meta elements to search on (Lastname, Firstname, Specialty, Gender, Language, etc.)

So, we decided to put hidden information in the pages, surrounded by Keep Tags and prefix user's queries with our key. For example, for physician specialty we put

<keep tag>
specialtyNeurology
specialtyInternal Medicine
languageEnglish
languageHindi
</keep tag>

when a user searches for "Neurology" we add "specialty" to the front, and it finds "specialtyNeurology". But it doesn't find physicians with "Pediatric Neurology" because that is in the page as

specialtyPediatric Neurology

I'm thinking there should be a way to pass a regular expression in the query parameter, but have had no luck doing so.

It seems that adding custom searches etc., is possible with the software, but we have not access to the file system on the appliance and have to use the query string to run one of the built in searches.

Can anyone please help us?

Thanks - DLS
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Query Help (Please)

Post by mark »

When you prepend "specialty" to the term also quote it so it's treated as a unit: "specialtyPediatric Neurology"

Texis may be a better match for your application than the generic appliance or webinator is.