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Balok
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Putting saved searches in a drop-down
on: Jul 31st, 2008, 4:20pm |
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I've been trying to devise a way to put the list of saved searches into a dropdown. I've figured out how to use <dax:search> to iterate over them and <dax:searchname/> to get their names, but what I can't figure out is how to get the links. When I try to pass </dax:searchlink> or <dax:searchlink><dax:searchlink/> to a bit of Javascript, I get errors. (I was figuring on building an options list for the dropdown.)
Can this be done? If so, how? Thanks.
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Andrei
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Re: Putting saved searches in a drop-down
Reply #1 on: Aug 7th, 2008, 12:36am |
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Probably not the most straightforward way, but it works. Place this code snippet where you want a dropdown:
Code:<!-- hidden div with generated search links -->
<div id="hidden_links" style="display: none">
<dax:search>
<dax:searchlink><dax:searchname/></dax:searchlink >
</dax:search>
</div>
<!-- actual dropdown, prepopulated with one initial element. The rest will be added programmatically -->
<select id="search_dropdown" onchange="if(this.value){ document.getElementById('search_' + this.value).click() }">
<option>Select search</option>
</select>
<script type="text/javascript">
// populate drop-down
var div = document.getElementById('hidden_links');
var sel = document.getElementById('search_dropdown');
var i, links = div.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i = 0; i < links.length; i ++) {
var o = document.createElement("option");
o.text = links[i].innerText;
o.value = i;
links[i].id = 'search_' + i;
sel.add(o);
}
</script> |
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Balok
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Re: Putting saved searches in a drop-down
Reply #2 on: Aug 8th, 2008, 7:14pm |
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Thanks! This worked great! Now I don't have to worry that a large number of searches will crowd the template.
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BLOWERS
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Re: Putting saved searches in a drop-down
Reply #3 on: Aug 14th, 2008, 10:40am |
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Hi Andei,
on Aug 7th, 2008, 12:36am, Firetongue wrote:Probably not the most straightforward way, but it works. Place this code snippet where you want a dropdown:
Code:<!-- hidden div with generated search links -->
<div id="hidden_links" style="display: none">
<dax:search>
<dax:searchlink><dax:searchname/></dax:searchlink >
</dax:search>
</div>
<!-- actual dropdown, prepopulated with one initial element. The rest will be added programmatically -->
<select id="search_dropdown" onchange="if(this.value){ document.getElementById('search_' + this.value).click() }">
<option>Select search</option>
</select>
<script type="text/javascript">
// populate drop-down
var div = document.getElementById('hidden_links');
var sel = document.getElementById('search_dropdown');
var i, links = div.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i = 0; i < links.length; i ++) {
var o = document.createElement("option");
o.text = links[i].innerText;
o.value = i;
links[i].id = 'search_' + i;
sel.add(o);
}
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This works well. My only problem is that I don’t know how to reduce the pointsize of the text in the box. A little help on how to do this would be very welcome!
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Balok
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Re: Putting saved searches in a drop-down
Reply #4 on: Aug 26th, 2008, 4:37pm |
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on Aug 14th, 2008, 10:40am, BLOWERS wrote:| My only problem is that I don’t know how to reduce the pointsize of the text in the box. A little help on how to do this would be very welcome! |
Your best choice is the CSS stylesheet.
Add this:
Code:#search_dropdown
{
font-size: 70%;
}
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somewhere in your CSS tab. You can use percentages, point sizes, inches or cm to define the font size as you like. If you changed the value in the <SEARCH> tag's ID attribute, be aware that what follows the # in the example above must match that value. What I gave you works with the code Andrei provided above (I tested it).
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BLOWERS
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Re: Putting saved searches in a drop-down
Reply #5 on: Aug 27th, 2008, 3:25am |
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Fantastic, Balok - works a treat! Thanks very much for your help.
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