Hi Peter,

I am working with a client that is requesting more creative ways to organize information accesss for users to find what they need. This site has several different types of content pertaining to different products. e.g., videos, service manuals, etc.

With regard to documents stored in DMX, one thought is a clickable link (e.g., an http link in a text module) which would "somehow" invoke a particular DMX instance on the same page to search for all documents with a particular word in the title and display the results.

(In some ways, I think it may be similar to the concept of how you integrate DMX with the DNN portal search.)

Is this something I can do now (the http link idea), or would it require changes to DMX or custom coding on my part to make this work?

Thank you,

Rob Ralston

Hi Peter,

I've actually been using this now with relatively good results on a DMX 3 installation, and look forward to using it on DMX 4 as soon as we can figure out why the Integrated DNN search is not working for me (from my other posts in this forum.)

Anyway, since this works with a specific instance of DMX on a page, configured with the Startup screen set to Search.ascx, I'm wondering if you would consider providing additional module settings options for search criteria.

For example, could you allow the admin to configure the module so that instead of doing a "contains" search on all of the text fields, could you provide check boxes to determine which field(s) should be used for this module instance?

I'm asking this because in my current use on DMX3 it is causing the search to find documents that ideally would not be found. This is occuring because of the search on the Original filename, in this particular scenario. (Note: I am asking for this for DMX4, I'm not asking you to change DMX3).

So, if I could tell the DMX instance to only search on Title, or (Title OR Keywords) for example, that would help a lot for this client's application.

I am thinking this would only be effective when Search.ascx is used, but I guess it wouldn't necessarily have to be limited to that case.

If this is not the best way to handle this need, would a programmatic approach be better, using your API (not that I am a coder)?

Thanks for your consideration.

Rob Ralston

That's great to hear. My client will be appreciative to know that.

Thanks.

Rob