Adds Thingy template variable to permit Javascript visualisation of search results

lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/Thingy.pm

@@ -3407,7 +3407,11 @@ sequenceNumber');
         push(@searchResult_loop,\%templateVars);
     }
     $var->{searchResult_loop} = \@searchResult_loop;    
+    
+    # Also expose the search results in the template as a json-encoded string
+    # so that people can e.g. visualise the results via Javascript
     $var->{searchResult_json} = JSON->new->encode(\@searchResult_loop);
+    
     $p->appendTemplateVars($var);
 
     $var->{"form_start"} = WebGUI::Form::formHeader($self->session,{action=>$self->getUrl,method=>'GET'})

lib/WebGUI/Help/Asset_Thingy.pm

@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ our $HELP = {
                     },
                 ]
             },
+            {   'name'     => 'searchResult_json',
+            },
         ],
         related => [
             {   tag       => 'edit thing template',

lib/WebGUI/i18n/English/Asset_Thingy.pm

@@ -659,6 +659,12 @@ Simply replace "key1"/"value1" with your own name/value pairs},
         context => q|Description of a tmpl_var for the template help.|,
     },
 
+    'searchResult_json' => {
+        message => q|JSON-encoded version of searchResult_loop so that you can access the data in Javascript|,
+        lastUpdated => 1285094918,
+        context => q|Description of a tmpl_var for the template help.|,
+    },
+
     'things_loop' => {
         message => q|A loop containing the Things that are defined for this Thingy Asset, with links to management
 functions for those Things|,