METASEARCH -- special search of meta data

METASEARCH is deprecated in favour of the new and much more powerful query type search. See SEARCH and QuerySearch.

• Syntax: %METASEARCH{...}%
• Supported parameters:

  Parameter:	Description:	Default:
  type="topicmoved"	What sort of search is required? "topicmoved" if search for a topic that may have been moved "parent" if searching for topics that have a specific parent i.e. its children "field" if searching for topics that have a particular form field value (use the name and value parameters to specify which field to search).	Required
  web="%WEB%"	Wiki web to search: A web, a list of webs separated by whitespace, or all webs.	Current web
  topic="%TOPIC%"	The topic the search relates to, for topicmoved and parent searches	All topics in a web
  name	form field to search, for field type searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH).
  value	form field value, for field type searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH).
  title="Title"	Text that is prefixed to any search results	empty
  format="..."	Custom format results. Supports same format strings as SEARCH. See FormattedSearch for usage & examples	Results in table
  default="none"	Default text shown if no search hit	Empty

• Examples:

    %METASEARCH{
      type="topicmoved"
      web="%WEB%"
      topic="%TOPIC%"
      title="This topic used to exist and was moved to: "
    }%

  You may want to use this in WebTopicViewTemplate and WebTopicNonWikiTemplate:

    %METASEARCH{
      type="parent"
      web="%WEB%"
      topic="%TOPIC%"
      title="Children: "
    }%
  
    %METASEARCH{
      type="field"
      name="Country"
      value="China"
    }%

• Related: SEARCH, META