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  • Anonymous
    (Private)  September 11, 2017 at 12:05 pm #130354

    Hi!
    No doubt my own ignorance, but I’m having issues with search results
    This is our scenario
    We have 4 different category fields with different groups of categories – Company, Sector, Report type – there is also a separeate category fileld for news
    These are all checkboxes using the AND Search Operator
    An example search might be that a user ticks something something from xategory fields 1, 2 and 3
    So say:
    Company – Alibaba
    Sector – Fintech
    Report type – Survey

    Now in this case there are no posts that have these 3 categories so no results should be shown – however, a post with the category of fintech is showing

    I’m obviously getting myself into a muddle with AND/OR etc but I can’y work out how to get it to show results as I want

    An indication of this is that a checkbox search for Alibaba & Fintech shows a url of advanced-search/?_sft_category=fintech rather than advanced-search/?_sft_category=fintech&Alibaba

    Any ideas? I know its my own ignorance!

    Thankyou

    Anonymous
    (Private)  September 11, 2017 at 12:08 pm #130355

    When we are searching within the same category field, the results come up correctly – ie advanced-search/?_sft_category=advertising+ecommerce but I need to be able to combine results some different cateory fields

    Trevor
    (Private)  September 11, 2017 at 2:51 pm #130386

    Are you able to send me a live link/URL to your search page so I can take a look?

    Anonymous
    (Private)  September 11, 2017 at 2:56 pm #130388
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    Trevor
    (Private)  September 11, 2017 at 3:12 pm #130398

    You are correct. You need to move taxonomy terms to new taxonomies. Find one of my posts that talks about a plugin called taxonomy switcher.

    Anonymous
    (Private)  September 13, 2017 at 1:07 pm #130798

    Hi Trevor, sorry for the late reply – in the end we’ve decided to go for a simpler category search that only involves using one category field

    Thanks for your advice on this!

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