Search with Order Anywhere

[smileyfta]

I have already built my website so I am using the "Order Anywhere" option on Shopsite Manager to add cart to website. My question is if there is a way to inlcude a site search with each page and in shopping cart with just using Order Anywhere option?

[loren_d_c]

Not really, not with the ShopSite search feature included in ShopSite Manager. You could include a 3rd-party search function in your pages, though. Perhaps Google Custom Search, or Google Site Search.

In ShopSite Pro there is the ability to specify an exact search landing page URL for each product so that your products can be indexed for the ShopSite search and when they are found in the ShopSite search they can point the shoppers to your own non-ShopSite pages. This function of the ShopSite product search is not available in Manager, so in Manager you have to have the products assigned to ShopSite-generated pages in order for them to be indexed for the search feature.

-Loren

[garyyorke]

We use Nextopia for our search engine and am very happy with it.

[PatG]

Not really, not with the ShopSite search feature included in ShopSite Manager. You could include a 3rd-party search function in your pages, though. Perhaps Google Custom Search, or Google Site Search.

In ShopSite Pro there is the ability to specify an exact search landing page URL for each product so that your products can be indexed for the ShopSite search and when they are found in the ShopSite search they can point the shoppers to your own non-ShopSite pages. This function of the ShopSite product search is not available in Manager, so in Manager you have to have the products assigned to ShopSite-generated pages in order for them to be indexed for the search feature.

-Loren

Wow, how cool! I had assumed since my site pages were built by me, not ShopSite (I just use ShopSite as a cart, not a catalog), that I couldn't use Search!

I just looked at the bulk upload help files here:
http://www.shopsite.com/help/10.1/en-US ... ields.html

And I see this:
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Search Make Page - The URL of the search destination for this product, if the Search Dest? field is set to "specified."
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And this:
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Search Dest Type - Indicates whether a search destination has been selected from the standard options or specified as a URL.
"selected" to indicate that the search destination is one of the standard options and is identified in the Search Dest field, or "specified" to indicate that the search destination is a URL, which is given in the Search Make Page field.
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Are you saying that if I know my product page's URLs, and I upload them with the products, and if I have Pro (which I do), then I can use ShopSite search with my existing website?

[loren_d_c]

Are you saying that if I know my product page's URLs, and I upload them with the products, and if I have Pro (which I do), then I can use ShopSite search with my existing website?

Yes. You still need to create one ShopSite page and have the search field and index for search options enabled on it, or the indexing of products for search will never occur when you Publish, however you don't have to reference this ShopSite-generated page anywhere on your site, so it's really only needed to trigger the product indexing.

You could probably also do this with Manager (but in a much more roundabout way) if you had at least one ShopSite-generated page and you assigned all products in your store to that page and created special custom search templates to not display the link to the ShopSite-generated page. Then the shopper could order the products from the search results page, or you could include a link to your own product page in the product's description, which will display on the search results page.

In both cases, you can copy the code for the search form from the HTML source of the ShopSite-generated page and use it in your own pages.

-Loren

[PatG]

OUTSTANDING!!!!

[smileyfta]

Is there anywhere that there is a step by step guide to do this at?

[robm]

We have a tutorial on this at:

http://support.lexiconn.com/news/viewtopic.php?t=342

It requires ShopSite Pro though to work seamlessly.

[smileyfta]

I am not sure what i have, Pro or not how do I tell? Also they speak of a way to do this above without pro, is there a step by step guide for this anywhere?