Searching two title fields with Select fields form with Solspace Super Search

Question

With Solspace Super Search the manual says to use name='title" to search the title field. The issue is the results URL simply favors and outputs only the second select statement so title=whatevervalue whereas you want title=whatevervalue&title=anothervalue.

How do you deal with searching for two title fields from two different channels?

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

<select channel="workplace" name="title" class="Textbox4" >
                    <option value="">&nbsp;</option>
                    {exp:channel:entries channel="workplace" sort="asc" dynamic="no" orderby="title"}
                    <option value="{url_title}"  >{title}</option>
                    {/exp:channel:entries}
                </select>

                    {exp:channel:entries channel="places" orderby="title" sort="asc" dynamic="no" category="1"}
<option value="">&nbsp;</option>
                        <option value="{url_title}" >{title}</option>
                    {/exp:channel:entries}
                    </select>
{/exp:super_search:search}

Answer 1

Try adding && after your field values:

<option value="{title}&&">{title}</option>

In Super Search, this can be used to make "AND" searches (eg. title A AND B)

Since you want to search more than one title at once, you need your field to allow an array of data. You can do this with a select field that accepts multiple values or with checkboxes. Eg:

<select name="title[]" multiple="multiple">

Note: Notice the brackets [] next to title: this is needed to send an array of data instead of a string of data. That's just how HTML forms work.

Note 2: In your select field, you have the other following issues:

• channel="" is not a valid attribute for select fields in HTML.
• If you're searching in titles, you need to use value="{title}" and not value="{url_title}". If you're searching for a url_title instead, value="{url_title}" would be used.
• You're missing an opening <select> tag before your second {exp:channel:entries} tag pair, if you need two select fields (if you need one select field, you have a closing </select> field too many.
• You have a leftover closing {/exp:super_search:search} tag in your code. You should remove that (btw, {exp:super_search:search} is often not needed in Super Search search forms)