Help creating custom web search - trimming characters

[maindoor]

Hi,

 

I am creating a custom web search where the input query has 3 irrelevant characters in the beginning.

eg. BUG1234. so when I double click and copy, the BUG1234 is copied into my clipboard. But only 1234 is

relevant. I used to specify www.mywebsite.com/problems/{query}, but this no longer works because of the

3 irrelevant characters.

This is a valid query www.mywebsite.com/problems/1234 whereas this is not

www.mywebsite.com/problems/BUG1234. how do I trim the first 3 characters ?

 

Thanks.

[deanishe]

Hi @maindoor, welcome to the forum.

 

That can't be done with a Custom Web Search, I'm afraid: they don't allow you to edit the query.

 

You need to create a workflow and use a Replace utility to alter the query. Here's an example. It's not very useful because it does exactly what you said (searches mywebsite.com).