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5/11/2011 8:38 AM
 

Quick scenarrio that makes no sense... Please see attached screenshot.


If I do a search for terms within the Sku field it works.
If I do a search for terms within the Product Name Field, it works.
If I do a search for terms within the Summary, it works.
If I do a search for terms within the description, it works conditionally:

If I search for "Photosmart" it works.
If I search for "HP 3100" it works
If I search for Photosmart 3100, it DOES NOT work.

Now this makes absolutely no sense to me.. You can see this product from the screen shot.
Go to http://thecartridgeshoppe.com/shoponline.aspx and try these searches for yourself. =- Please advise.

Perhaps I'm missing the obvious..

 

Cart: 4.28 or whatever the newest one is..

DNN: 5.6.1

 

Thanks!!!

 
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5/11/2011 2:46 PM
 

SmithCart product search treats multiple words as one search term and uses like '%word1 word2%'.

I'm not quite sure why HP 3000 works, perhaps the search is different from the Products admin page.

This brings up two issues. On the admin product search, the selected search method should be persistent. I know I always search by SKU and need to select the dropdown each time. A more deeper problem is the simplifed single search term in products search. I think should be modified to include multiple words for inclusion as well as exculsions.

For example, I find it confusing when

10 finds 100, 1000 or anything with '10'

'red' will find red, ordered, centered, coloured, credit, predelivery, credenza (not quite what I was looking for)

'red dress' currently finds 'red dress' but will not find 'dress' and 'red'

Or if I want not want a red dress, I would like to use 'dress -red'

Using ling this would be easy, using the DNN DAL is a little more difficult, but it can be done.

 
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5/11/2011 2:46 PM
 

duplicate post (sigh)

 
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5/11/2011 6:52 PM
 
Hi guys,

A new search module has been added to the next version of the Cart 4.3 which is much more efficient. For a description check out the Change Log page.

Thanks, Kevin
 
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