CodeStore.net comments on "There's No Accounting For Bad Logic"

Reply from Raven

Raven — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:37:16 -0500

wish that notes formula is close to SQL when building queries :]

couldn't get the hang of it though.

i think the wildcard should be used like this select field =* criteria. i think it's the same as @contains right?

i'm just new to notes but getting the hang of it though :]

Reply from Nick Hopkins

Nick Hopkins — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:22:40 -0500

Did it again this week.

Put a WQS agent in WQO and spent the next hour staring at my correct (as it happens) code.

Reply from Rob

Rob — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:02:50 -0600

One of the biggest problems with search builders is when you have no idea what's in the database you are very likely to build search strings that return nothing. That's happened to me on many sites in the past.

One suggestion that might help is have the search qualifier default to "Is Like" or "Contains". So I did the search "SELECT @Like(title; "%")" which I think returns every record in the database.

I also noticed that the search is case sensitive. Most search systems I've run across are not.

I wish my Notes Email client could sort the search results like this. Hay, how about a Flex email client for Notes. Wouldn't that be killer.

Peace,

Rob:-]

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:42:13 -0600

Or to not put quotes when using @IsAvailable. Or do you? I can never remember...

Reply from Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:50:49 -0600

Forgetting the quotes around the field name when doing an @setfield is one of my big gotchas.