Item2546: Regex Search of Group members broken

I am in the middle of migrating from T*iki to Foswiki. (As I stated here: CompaniesAreUpgradingToFoswiki). I have run into a bug which is halting the progress I have made so far.

I have developed a number of Wiki applications that use a formatted regex search to query the members of a group. This is then used in forms/dropdowns etc.

I had been using the following search to get the list of users from the group topic. This works fine on T*iki but is not working on Foswiki at all. This is an extremely urgent bug for me as it is stopping my Foswiki migration.

Select...

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If there is a workaround then that would also suffice..

-- PadraigLennon - 31 Dec 2009

I really should have previewed this.. It is working here... Arggh!!!

I am running:

This site is running Foswiki version Foswiki-1.0.8, Sun, 29 Nov 2009, build 5665, Plugin API version 2.0 

-- PadraigLennon - 31 Dec 2009

I just tried on release branch, my test Foswiki 1.0.8.

Both work, but actually populate the list with the example documentation that's in the AdminGroup topic. After I delete the documentation, the select is populated properly.

NB: I've used this in my own wiki to achieve a similar thing:

   * Set GROUP = %STARTINCLUDE%Person1, Person2, Person3%STOPINCLUDE% 

Obviously not pretty, which is why I am interested in QueryAccessControls

Are you using forking or PurePerl search implementation?

-- PaulHarvey - 31 Dec 2009

Thanks for getting back to me on this Paul

I was actually using the KinoSearchContrib supplied search option

Foswiki::Store::SearchAlgorithms::Kino';

Changing this option to use:

Foswiki::Store::SearchAlgorithms::Forking

or PurePerl fixes the issue. It does not seem to have a negative effect on the KinoSearch search actions so I will leave it in place.

I have reassigned this bug report to for KinoSearchContrib.

thanks again..

-- PadraigLennon - 03 Jan 2010

We are having almost exactly the same problem after installing KinoSearchContrib last night and setting it to replace standard %SEARCH%. I'm not the sysadmin, but I messed around with the search string a bit and it looks like KinoSearchContrib isn't paying attention to the topic="" field of %SEARCH% because I get back results from more than just the topic listed there:

''" then='

Of course, as Padraig said, it appears to work here, so maybe it is just a configuration issue?

We are running Foswiki-1.0.9, Sun, 17 Jan 2010, build 6075, Plugin API version 2.0

You might be able to work around the problem using %INCLUDE% instead:

%CALC{$LISTJOIN($sp, $LISTMAP(<option value=\"$web.$item\">$PROPERSPACE($item)</option>, $TRIM(%INCLUDE{"Main.AdminGroup" pattern="^.*GROUP *= *([^\n]*).*"}%))}%

Or something like that. Hope this helps!

-- BryanThrall - 12 Feb 2010

Think the issue is with the %KINOSEARCH% macro, so have reassigned to KinoSearchPlugin.

-- AndrewJones - 25 Mar 2011