### METASEARCH -- special search of meta data - Syntax: `%METASEARCH{...}%` - Supported parameters:
Parameter: Description: Default:
type="topicmoved" What sort of search is required?
"topicmoved" if search for a topic that may have been moved
"parent" if searching for topics that have a specific parent i.e. its children
"field" if searching for topics that have a particular form field value (use the name and value parameters to specify which field to search)
Required
web="%WEB%" Wiki web to search: A web, a list of webs separated by whitespace, or all webs. Current web
topic="%TOPIC%" The topic the search relates to, for topicmoved and parent searches All topics in a web
name form field to search, for field type searches. May be a regular expression (see [[Main/VarSEARCH]]).  
value form field value, for field type searches. May be a regular expression (see [[Main/VarSEARCH]]).  
title="Title" Text that is prefixed to any search results empty
format="..." Custom format results. Supports same format strings as [[Main/VarSEARCH]]. See [[Main/FormattedSearch]] for usage, variables & examples Results in table
default="none" Default text shown if no search hit Empty
- Example: `%METASEARCH{type="topicmoved" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title="This topic used to exist and was moved to: "}%` - Example: You may want to use this in [[WebTopicViewTemplate]] and [[WebTopicNonWikiTemplate]]:
`%METASEARCH{type="parent" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title="Children: "}%` - Example: `%METASEARCH{type="field" name="Country" value="China"}%` - Related: [[SEARCH|Main/VarSEARCH]], [[META|Main/VarMETA]] - **_%X% Note:_** METASEARCH is deprecated in favour of the new and much more powerful query type search. See [[SEARCH|Main/VarSEARCH]] and [[QuerySearch]]. **_Related Topics:_** [[UserDocumentationCategory]] **_Note:_** This topic is included by [[TWikiVariables]] ----