Introduction

This package provides a complete user interface for AdvancedQuery by Dieter Maurer. It enables you to use a powerful language to search for content. It also provides functionality to save parametrized and conditional queries for later use (predefined queries). Look at the examples for more information.

Installation

• Put anthill.querytool in eggs= and zcml=
• Make sure that AdvancedQuery is installed (works for Plone 3.x)

Example query

A query could look like that:

And(
    Eq('SearchableText', '$text'),
    ~Generic('path', {'query':'Members', 'level':-1}),

    [[if($allowed_types)]]
        In('portal_types', $allowed_types),
    [[endif]]

    [[ifnot($allowed_types)]]
        In('portal_types', ['Folder', 'Document']),
    [[endif]]

    Ge('start_date', TODAY)
)

Here you see that you can parametrize queries (variable expansion enabled using $), you also can use defined constants (only one currently active called TODAY where TODAY=DateTime()) and you can put conditionals in your queries.

Conditionals are a powerful way to enable or disable certain parts of your query. The if statement checks if a given parameter exists. You can also replace if with ifnot that only activates the given part if the parameter is not set.

You can save this query and call it later on like that:

context.query_tool.executePredefinedQuery('contentsearch', text='Test*', allowed_types=['Folder', ])

Extensions

This release adds some additional query operators (defined in SearchOperators.py). The following operators are currently available:

• Count counts items in search results. (e.g. Count(Eq('SearchableText', 'moses')) )
• Sum computes sum over int result (e.g. Sum(Ge('commentcount', 10)) )
• Avg computes the average over an int result (e.g. Avg(Ge('userviews', 1)) )

Look at SearchOperators.py for examples on how to create your own operators.

Submit query

Predefined queries

Thanks

• Markus Reinsch for coding the predecessor of this package
• Dieter Maurer for his great implementation of AdvancedQuery

0.2 - 2009/08/21

• Revamped documentation [spamsch]

0.1 - 2009/08/20

• Initial release