Quick Search

[Waggers]

We have thousands of products in hundreds of sections.

Is it possible for the quick search feature to find sections (and sub-sections)?

Also, we had a customer commenting that he searched for "paper stretchers" and couldn't find anything. We have the product listed as "paper stretcher" (singular).

Short of cluttering up the product names and descriptions with every permutation I can think of, is there a better way to make the search facility more user friendly?

Richard

[cdicken]

Hi Richard - I've moved this to the 'wish list' forum as there aren't really any ways to cope with misspellings better than we do at the moment.

With regards to sections, you could always add a section list into the search tool so customers can just search within specific sections. To do this, just copy, the following code into the quick search layout:

<select name="SX">
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22SetupSearchAllSections%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20False">
<option value="0"> </option>
</actinic:block>
<actinic:variable name="SearchSectionList" />
</select>

THis might help people pin point the products they way. You could also include a drop-down section jump list into your store design, so customers can jump straight to the section they want. Instructions for this are in the Advanced User Guide.