just wondering,

why aren't you using the Swish::API perl module for this? It would make 
the issue much easier to debug IMHO.

at any rate, if you can create a command line like this:

swish-e -w author=$author costcenter=$costcenter -f blah.index

it really should work, our index has about 30 custom metanames and we 
have no issue with searching them.

have you also done swish-e -T INDEX_METANAMES to confirm that both are 
available?

regards,

Brad
---------------------
Brad Miele
VP Technology
IPNStock.com
866 476 7862 x902
bmiele@ipnstock.com

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Cas Tuyn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> To create advanced search I added two extra search boxes, author and
> costcenter.
> Field names are: QUERY, au and cc
>
> Inside my Perl script I have:
>
> foreach $option(@options) {
> 	($name, $value)=split('=', $option);
> 	if ($name eq "QUERY") {
> 		$query=$value;
> 	}
> 	if ($name eq "P") {
> 		$position = $value;
> 	}
> 	if ($name eq "au") {
> 		$qauthor = $value;
> 	}
> 	if ($name eq "cc") {
> 		$qcc = $value;
> 	}
> }
> open (SWISH, "/web/bin/swish-e-2.4.3/bin/swish-e -f $index -H 9 -d ::
> -b $position -m 10 -p description author -w $query \"author=$qauthor\"
> \"costc=$qcc\" |");
>
> so the URL contains:  search.pl?QUERY=&au=cas&cc=nl017016
> when I only search for author and costcenter
>
> My problem is that only the regular query and author fields seem to
> work. When I search exclusively for a costcenter:
>    search.pl?QUERY=&au=&cc=nl017016
> I find nothing, and in combination with author it does not make a
> difference with or without costcenter.
>
> Does anybody have tips to search for self-generated Metanames?
>
> I already verified that Swish-e knows the 'costc' metaname, I can even
> show it in the search output if I place "costc" between the "-p
> description" and "author" in the command, then I see the costcenter
> instead of the authorname in the search output.
>
> My config = Swish-e 2.4.3 on Solaris 2.8
>
> Regards,
>
> Cas
>
>