Query Syntax.. Multiple Categories

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ade56

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Dec 14, 2011, 5:23:53 PM12/14/11

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Hi there..

I am struggling with query syntax for multiple categories.

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/v1.xml?search_text=wellington%20AND%20category:%22Images%22%20OR%20category:%22Videos%22&api_key=my_key

What i would like from the above query is to search results with
"Wellington" and return all Images and Videos with that text in the
description.. However the query above returns Wellington text and
Images and just any video (unrelated to text='wellington')

Could anyone help? is this even possible or not?

Thanks for reading this,

Andrew

Chris McDowall

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Dec 14, 2011, 7:54:07 PM12/14/11

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Hi Andrew,

Almost there. One way to achieve your query is to wrap the format
request in brackets.

search_text=wellington AND (category:"Images" OR category:"Videos")

The full query becomes:
http://api.digitalnz.org/records/v2.xml?search_text=wellington%20AND%20%28category:%22Images%22%20OR%20category:%22Videos%22%29&num_results=100&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY

Does that do what you want?

Chris

On Dec 15, 11:23 am, ade56 <ad...@uclive.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi there..
>
> I am struggling with query syntax for multiple categories.
>