Searchable Properties

[isbsweb]

Hello!
I have a custom property called AUTHOR. I would like to set up my search page so that a customer can type "John Smith" and see all of the books by John Smith. However, the HTML representation only allows radio buttons, checkboxes, lists and drop down boxes.
Is there a way to do this??
Thanks


Michael Izaak
ISBS

[I-CC]

The use of custom properties in the case of the author you explained should not really come with use of radio buttons or anything else like that, or are you talking about components.

Within Business (Catalog will not search custom properties) you set your custom property for the product concerned and check a checkbox next to the property to make it searchable.

Then when you search for John and it is within this custom property it will be displayed along with the rest of the occurences it finds for john.

Hope this helps..

[cdicken]

Also, you could un-tick where it says 'Catalog Maintains Search Page' in 'View | Search Settings | Search Options' and then edit the generated search.html page (in your 'SiteHTML' folder) in Dreamweaver.

Replace the drop-down list code e.g.

<SELECT SIZE="1" NAME="S&#95;author1&#95;0">
<OPTION VALUE="" SELECTED>Any
...
...
...
</SELECT>

with the code for a text field e.g.

<input type="text" name="S&#95;author1&#95;0" size="20">