Re: Recursive query - net.data

Don,
So you want a web page with an input box which when submitted with a wildcard type value will cause a directory tree to be searched and return a list of one or more matching candidates.

Are the folders to be searched on the PC directly or using the same folders on the IFS?

Peter

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Subject: [WEB400] Recursive query - net.data

I'm curious if there is a way to do the following:

I have a directory structure ( on a PC ) similar to this:

ALL_Documents
Quality Docs
Operations Docs (These are just WORD documents)
Finance Docs
Shipping Docs
etc.

Inside each of the departmental folders, there are many ISO documents with lengthy names - which we would like to 'search for and call up' by partial "key" scanning.

I know how to build a macro which would FIRST ask the user to position to the specific folder they are looking into, and then ask for the keyword to scan for.

Example:
--------------------
Quality |
Operations |
Finance | User would first be required to highlight which folder they want to scan.
Shipping |
-------------------

Enter the partial or full keyword to search by:

____________________________________ (then the user would enter in their "search' keyword.)


The macro would have four separate queries - based on what the user selected in the 'top' section.

My question is this: Is there some way to eliminate having the user 'choose' which directory they are positioning to, and instead just have the search for the keyword begin at the ALL_Documents level and automatically go thru each of the 4 sub-folder levels?

TIA
Don F. Cavaiani
IT Manager
Amerequip Corp.
920-894-7063

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