[FX.php List] character encoding issue?

[Bob Patin]

One more thought about CDML: to do the same thing in a form, you just  
set a hidden field whose name = 'email' (assuming you're searching an  
email field) and then its value is set to '=='. This does the same  
thing in CDML-world...


On Feb 21, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Good to know, but I could swear that I tried = and == from the web  
> and they failed. Maybe it was a CDML thing.
>
> -Dale
>
> On Feb 21, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Derrick Fogle wrote:
>
>> Calculation fields can be indexed - except in cases where they  
>> reference related data from a different table. If both your source  
>> fields are local, stored, and indexable, and your calculation  
>> field is in the same table, the calculation field is also stored  
>> and indexable for quick searching. But, enough of that...
>>
>> Bob Patin's note - using the exact match "==" allows the find on  
>> un-modified email addresses - is a good, simple solution that  
>> works, and we should all be using it.
>>
>> Yes, I was the first one to recommend a crazy "calculated  
>> equivalent" workaround. In my defense, official institutional  
>> userid's in my current environment are the first part of the email  
>> address, and there are two different domains that our users might  
>> end up having (student vs faculty), so my userid and domain were  
>> broken apart to begin with. Then I just got carried away with  
>> breaking them apart even when I didn't need to.
>>
>> On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>>
>>> (I could use a calc field and Substitute to have a dynamic  
>>> version of this, but that will slow down searches if the number  
>>> of users gets big. So I decided to stuff the searchable email  
>>> into a static, indexable text field.)
>>>
>>
>>
>> Derrick Fogle
>> derrick at fogles.net
>>
>>
>>
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