a work around
So, Tracey - if i understand correctly - you want 2 drop downs and for them each to have an 'ALL' option within them so they will be ignored if not changed?
If so - this may help...
You can't pass a blank value (it will error and tell you so) and there's no wild card.
BUT - if you set the searchable properties to all start with the same few characters it will pick up on this.
For instance, in the default actinic site - set a custom searchable property of 'department' and instead of creating choices of books, clothing etc set them as deptbooks, deptclothing etc. When you get to customising the search.html page create an 'ALL' option within the dropdown with a value of 'dept'. It will pick up on all the items as they all start with 'dept'!
So in your case the searchable properties all need to be size1, size2, size3 etc, branda, brandb, brandc etc. The 'ALL' options would just be 'size' and 'brand' and they'd pick up on all of the above.
This can be taken further as you begin to customise your search page(s) further...
Hope that makes sense and is of some use to someone...
So, Tracey - if i understand correctly - you want 2 drop downs and for them each to have an 'ALL' option within them so they will be ignored if not changed?
If so - this may help...
You can't pass a blank value (it will error and tell you so) and there's no wild card.
BUT - if you set the searchable properties to all start with the same few characters it will pick up on this.
For instance, in the default actinic site - set a custom searchable property of 'department' and instead of creating choices of books, clothing etc set them as deptbooks, deptclothing etc. When you get to customising the search.html page create an 'ALL' option within the dropdown with a value of 'dept'. It will pick up on all the items as they all start with 'dept'!
So in your case the searchable properties all need to be size1, size2, size3 etc, branda, brandb, brandc etc. The 'ALL' options would just be 'size' and 'brand' and they'd pick up on all of the above.
This can be taken further as you begin to customise your search page(s) further...
Hope that makes sense and is of some use to someone...
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