Digital Workshop

I have a publication that requires a publication search, I can get it to work using the default windows dialog box but thought I'd be clever and use the interface supplied in the components gallery as it looks a lot nicer. I know it must get the keywords for the search from a different location to the standard windows search dialog - but where do they need to be. I'm new to scripting and have been going round in circles for the past couple of days. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

David

Davinor,

I not sure what you are asking. You can create keywords for a specific page in Opus using the Page | Properties | General tab.

To access right-mouse click on the page.

Hi Leo
I know that and have no problem doing that with the standard interface, however when using the custom interface supplied in the components gallery it doesn't use the keywords if you enter them in the page properties dialog. I just can't figure out how to make it work

David

Have you tried selecting the words in the editor. right-click and add them through the context menu?

Same glass of beer, just a different approach.

Hi Ray
Nope that didn't work, it's looking more and more like I am going to be using the standard windows search box. If I figure it out I'll post the solution.
Thank God it's Friday

David

Hi Davinor,

If you take a hex editor to an IMP, you find the keywords embedded without anyway of getting to them outside of Opus.

However, there are a set of scripting commands that allow you to read the search information. EG

Search = OpenSearch()
Page = Search.GetFirstPage(mySearchString)
Debug.trace(Page)

The above opens a search (not a box, but an object), then searches for the first page that matches the mySearchString term and stores in in Page. This is displayed in a debug window for good measure. You should be able to use the commands to build a full functioning custom search box.

Mackavi