Search $ value

[Richard Ruda]

We want to build a search drop down box that will allow us to send
parameters to shoplite's productsearch.cgi.
What we want to be able to do is allow customers to search for certain $
values but it looks like this cgi does not search the value fields.
Any suggestions? Are their other shipsite cgi's we could use to do this or
3rd party
Thanks
Richard

[jim]

You are right that the Price field is not indexed for search. You might
consider putting the price in some other field that is searchable so
that you could search on it. You would probably want to put something
specific since a person probably wouldn't search for all 9.99 items so
would want to put something like Under 10 for all products that cost
less than $10.

Jim



Richard Ruda wrote:

We want to build a search drop down box that will allow us to send
parameters to shoplite's productsearch.cgi.
What we want to be able to do is allow customers to search for certain $
values but it looks like this cgi does not search the value fields.
Any suggestions? Are their other shipsite cgi's we could use to do this or
3rd party
Thanks
Richard

[loren_d_c]

Or, if you have Pro, put something like UNDER10 in the Search Keywords
field for all of the under $10 products (or however you want to
categorize them), then in your drop-down submit this special value to
the productsearch.cgi. Making sure you find a specific item(s) for a
specific search without having to put special text in the product
description or name is what the Search Keywords fields is all about (so
it could also be used to input common mispellings of keywords that
shoppers may use to try to find the product).

-Loren


jim wrote:

You are right that the Price field is not indexed for search. You might
consider putting the price in some other field that is searchable so
that you could search on it. You would probably want to put something
specific since a person probably wouldn't search for all 9.99 items so
would want to put something like Under 10 for all products that cost
less than $10.

Jim



Richard Ruda wrote:

We want to build a search drop down box that will allow us to send
parameters to shoplite's productsearch.cgi.
What we want to be able to do is allow customers to search for certain $
values but it looks like this cgi does not search the value fields.
Any suggestions? Are their other shipsite cgi's we could use to do
this or
3rd party
Thanks
Richard

[Richard Ruda]

Thanks,
Richard