Refined search feature

Anonymous

#257182

We are moving our old Joomla custom site over to wordpress/woocommerce. The old site http://www.optialinn.com has over 3000 unique items in inventory. You get too many hits if you search on one term at a time. I would like to limit search results by searching multiple tags (classes) at once as shown on my site. The search terms I use are: manufacturer; model number; description and category. You can fill in one or more terms at a time to limit search results. Can the search and filter plugin do that or are all the added search terms independent of each other. How would you build such a search engine?

Trevor

#257203

Each field you want in your form (manufacturer; model number; description and category) would need to be separate custom taxonomies OR (as a preference) the first three as custom fields. WooCommerce already comes with two custom taxonomies; Product Categories (which you mention) and Product tags. The others you would need to make, with a plugin like Custom Post Type UI (if you want them as taxonomies, but, unless you have already entered the data terms, I would not) or Advanced Custom Fields to make custom fields. Custom Fields are more flexible that taxonomies.

You might find this post useful as well:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/elementor-filter-not-working-showing-all-results/#post-221562

Anonymous

#257289

Sorry I did not phrase my search filter requirement clearly. I have four search fields. In my case I have manufacturer, model number, description and class. I would like to search on any one, multiple, and up to all four fields in one search request. If I leave any of the four fields blank (or type *), then that would mean the search would include all the items in that field and any term called out in the other search fields would narrow down the search. My problem is I have a large inventory database to search and the model number, description and class are not unique to any one manufacturer. If your plugin can do this, can you forward a link to an example.

Trevor

#257333

Did you play with our demo search form?

https://demo.searchandfilter.com/movies/

As you make choices, the other fields can be made to reduce their options to match, if that is what you mean?

Anonymous

#257391

I want to search multiple fields with one search. As an example, I have a very large inventory of 100k+ of different hats from all manufacturers you can think of. I want to find all the manufacturers of one style, one size and color. I enter each term in a separate box that searches that specific field name in the database. When I click a common search button, it will find all results of that in common that matches my requirements without having to do successive searches. This is how I would like to do my search. I implemented this style of search in Joomla on my old web site and also in my desktop database that is uploaded to my web site now. I am looking for a plugin that can do this without having to code a custom search feature.

Trevor

#257477

You should be able to do this, but not by entering values in a text box, by by selecting from options in different fields.

What I would do in the form setup (all on the General Settings tab and in the Form UI).

I assume that the hat manufacturers are a custom post type, so select Hats as the post type to search
Auto Submit OFF
Both Auto Counts settings ON

In the Form UI

Have the (three) fields you want as dropdown custom fields:

style
size
color

And in each field have ‘hide empty’ ON.

and also a Submit button.

Anonymous

#257553

Search and filter plugin so far is directing me to have 4 independent search boxes on the search page. One will be a drop down of all the categories about 50. The other will have to be a text search on each field type. The quantity in each field is too large >100 to have a predefined drop down. The search set will be large (>20 pages) from each search if I cannot narrow results down by searching several field types in one search. To give you an idea on inventory I am searching, I have a set of over 100 manufacturers, 600 models and maybe 3000 description terms

Trevor

#257563

I see. You can have only search text box per form, and only one form per page. I am sure what you mean when you say our plugin is directing you?

Anonymous

#257760

I got this reply from Crocoblock on Jetsmartfilter and wanted find find out if your filter can do something similar. I plan to

“Search filter from JetSmartFilters has it own “apply filter” button
It is possible to add several search filters and one separate button – but you’ll need to hide filters own apply button with CSS” I plan to either white the search buttons or relabel them with type of search.
The picture they sent can be seen at
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:fc1d6289-a588-49bb-b718-ea9f70bcd99e

Trevor

#257859

Are those boxes that have ‘Toyota’, ‘3’ and ‘5’ in them search text fixes (where you type the text) or choice boxes (i.e. dropdown selects)? If the former, you cannot (currently) do that with our plugin, sorry. The image looks like that is what you want, each with its own ‘submit’ button (Apply Filter), and then these hidden, and a separate button to apply all. If I understand what you want, then that will be coming I think in V3, but that is a few months away yet.

If those boxes a Select boxes, where you pick and option, as long as they are each based on different sources (taxonomy or custom field), then they wouldn’t need their own Apply Filter button anyway, as the normal single form Submit button will submit any selections you make.

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