Product ID as part of search criteria

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cpcsigns Advanced Member USA 139 Posts Pre-sales questions only (More Details...)	Posted - 01/12/2018 : 13:10:10 How can I make the Product ID/SKUs searchable? I don't have enough space in search words to include every SKU with some Products that have lots of options. Example PRODUCTAsizecolor - visible product with below items being hidden but skus need to be found by typing in search bar. PRODUCTA36BL PRODUCTA36WH PRODUCTA48BK PRODUCTA48GR Michelle L Cosen
Sinbad ECT Moderator USA 65937 Posts	Posted - 01/12/2018 : 14:24:15 Hi Michelle, I'm afraid the only way I can see of doing it with hidden products is to use the search words in the product admin area. Winners never quit, quitters never win CSS and Responsive Designs User Manual for Ecommerce Templates
cpcsigns Advanced Member USA 139 Posts Pre-sales questions only (More Details...)	Posted - 01/13/2018 : 05:03:05 OK.. So a BIG suggestion/request to make this a near future feature!! Most retail site offers the SKU as a searchable option and it would be of great benefit. Thanks for the info. Michelle L Cosen
Andy ECT Moderator 95440 Posts	Posted - 01/13/2018 : 05:29:15 Hi Michelle The search does use both the Product ID and the SKU entries for search by default. Andy Please feel free to review / rate our software
cpcsigns Advanced Member USA 139 Posts Pre-sales questions only (More Details...)	Posted - 01/18/2018 : 06:23:54 that may be true for visible products, but a hidden sku will not generate when it's an alternate option of a visible product. I'd like all 10, 12, 25, etc hidden SKUs of a visible product to land on the visible product when searched.. That is the part that is causing me trouble. Michelle L Cosen
Andy ECT Moderator 95440 Posts	Posted - 01/18/2018 : 07:14:40 Sorry but you said "Most retail site offers the SKU as a searchable option and it would be of great benefit." - if it is hidden we made allowance for that by offering the search words feature - I'm not sure what else we can do there. Andy Please feel free to review / rate our software
cpcsigns Advanced Member USA 139 Posts Pre-sales questions only (More Details...)	Posted - 01/18/2018 : 07:42:53 If there is a green, blue, yellow, black, red, purple, teal, pink, white t-shirt in sizes: xs, s, m, l, xl, xxl, 3xl.. I am not aware of a single site that has every option visible individually?? So in that scenario, none of the individual products are visible... making the search feature for the individual skus useless... unless you can fit them all into the search words in the main product. that's a lot of individual codes for 1 product with options. the search words area is too short.. I can't always include all of the skus... as I run out of room. Does this make more sense to what I am trying to convey? Is there a way to expand the search bar number of characters? Michelle L Cosen
Sinbad ECT Moderator USA 65937 Posts	Posted - 01/18/2018 : 11:43:08 Hi Michelle, using the side filter bar might be a solution that help customers find items that are available in their color / size https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/ECT-Side-Filter-Bar Winners never quit, quitters never win CSS and Responsive Designs User Manual for Ecommerce Templates
cpcsigns Advanced Member USA 139 Posts Pre-sales questions only (More Details...)	Posted - 01/18/2018 : 11:51:14 yeah.. thanks.. that not really the issue. But I will look at that as an add on feature. We have a catalog that is extremely Product ID based. Is there a way to make the search words character count bigger? If not, it is only an issue on a small percentage of items and we will just have to live with it. Michelle L Cosen
Sinbad ECT Moderator USA 65937 Posts	Posted - 01/18/2018 : 12:29:10 Hi Michelle, it is a text field in the databases so you should be able to add as much text as you like. You can also use the csv to add text to the pSearchParams column Winners never quit, quitters never win CSS and Responsive Designs User Manual for Ecommerce Templates
cpcsigns Advanced Member USA 139 Posts Pre-sales questions only (More Details...)	Posted - 01/18/2018 : 12:36:37 OK.. great I'll have my IT guy do that. That is a very workable solution. Thanks. Michelle L Cosen
1234 Ecommerce Template Expert USA 974 Posts	Posted - 09/04/2019 : 06:32:07 I was placing search "terms" in the Search Words box until I went back and looked at a live page. When you hover over a search term, it only highlights a single word in the term. Am I wasting time by placing terms (phrases) here, instead of single words?
Vince Administrator 42874 Posts	Posted - 09/04/2019 : 08:43:28 Hi 1234 The purpose of this feature is to make sure that product descriptions that don't actually contain a search term can still be pulled from the search results for that term. Displaying those words on the page was a feature that customers asked for but I don't think it's necessary to have the correct "phrase" unless you think that by doing so Google is going to pick up on the actual phrase better. Vince Click Here for Shopping Cart Software Click Here to sign up for our newsletter Click Here for the latest updater
1234 Ecommerce Template Expert USA 974 Posts	Posted - 09/04/2019 : 08:49:50 Thanks Vince. I was thinking that entering search terms there would produce the product when someone entered the term on the search page. I wasn't thinking Google, but maybe Google can read that far into the page to pick up those search words (terms).? (not important, just curious)
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