Ecommerce Search (Unable to find products)

[Ancheta, Fred]

Greetings!

I am currently working on getting search to work as it does in the Ecommerce
application.  I have already set up a Default Search Category to hold all of
the products in.  Now when I go to search, I get no results at all.  Ive
even tried adding the products to the Demo Default Search category in
Ecommerce and searching on the Ecommerce site, but none of the products I
add can be found.  Am I missing something here?

Also, rather than adding products to the Default Search Category, am I able
to simply add existing categories as children and make them searchable?
This way, I don't have to continue to copy products from one category into
another.  Instead, I could just copy the categories holding those products
into the search category.

Thanks in advanced.

[Pranay Pandey-2]

Hi Fred,

You can achieve this by rolling up categories that you want with the  
search category.
Here I am giving you an small example with default categories and  
creating new one of doing so:

<ProductCategory productCategoryId="TEST" description="Testing"  
productCategoryTypeId="CATALOG_CATEGORY"/>
<Product productId="TE-100" productTypeId="FINISHED_GOOD"  
primaryProductCategoryId="TEST" productName="Test Prod"  
internalName="Test Prod" description="Test Product"  
autoCreateKeywords="Y"/>
<ProductCategoryMember productCategoryId="TEST" productId="TE-100"  
fromDate="2008-12-02 12:00:00.0"/>
<ProductCategoryRollup parentProductCategoryId="CATALOG1"  
productCategoryId="TEST" fromDate="2008-12-02 12:00:00.0"/>
<ProductCategoryRollup parentProductCategoryId="CATALOG1_SEARCH"  
productCategoryId="TEST" fromDate="2008-12-02 12:00:00.0"/>

HTH!

Thanks & Regards
--
Pranay Pandey
HotWax Media | www.hotwaxmedia.com

On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Ancheta, Fred wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I am currently working on getting search to work as it does in the  
> Ecommerce
> application.  I have already set up a Default Search Category to  
> hold all of
> the products in.  Now when I go to search, I get no results at all.  
> Ive
> even tried adding the products to the Demo Default Search category in
> Ecommerce and searching on the Ecommerce site, but none of the  
> products I
> add can be found.  Am I missing something here?
>
> Also, rather than adding products to the Default Search Category, am  
> I able
> to simply add existing categories as children and make them  
> searchable?
> This way, I don't have to continue to copy products from one  
> category into
> another.  Instead, I could just copy the categories holding those  
> products
> into the search category.
>
> Thanks in advanced.

[Ancheta, Fred]

Thank you Pranay.  I will look more into what you did here and compare it to
our own setup.  Hope all is well!

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Pranay Pandey <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Fred,
>
> You can achieve this by rolling up categories that you want with the search
> category.
> Here I am giving you an small example with default categories and creating
> new one of doing so:
>
> <ProductCategory productCategoryId="TEST" description="Testing"
> productCategoryTypeId="CATALOG_CATEGORY"/>
> <Product productId="TE-100" productTypeId="FINISHED_GOOD"
> primaryProductCategoryId="TEST" productName="Test Prod" internalName="Test
> Prod" description="Test Product" autoCreateKeywords="Y"/>
> <ProductCategoryMember productCategoryId="TEST" productId="TE-100"
> fromDate="2008-12-02 12:00:00.0"/>
> <ProductCategoryRollup parentProductCategoryId="CATALOG1"
> productCategoryId="TEST" fromDate="2008-12-02 12:00:00.0"/>
> <ProductCategoryRollup parentProductCategoryId="CATALOG1_SEARCH"
> productCategoryId="TEST" fromDate="2008-12-02 12:00:00.0"/>
>
> HTH!
>
> Thanks & Regards
> --
> Pranay Pandey
> HotWax Media | www.hotwaxmedia.com
>
>
> On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Ancheta, Fred wrote:
>
>  Greetings!
>>
>> I am currently working on getting search to work as it does in the
>> Ecommerce
>> application.  I have already set up a Default Search Category to hold all
>> of
>> the products in.  Now when I go to search, I get no results at all.  Ive
>> even tried adding the products to the Demo Default Search category in
>> Ecommerce and searching on the Ecommerce site, but none of the products I
>> add can be found.  Am I missing something here?
>>
>> Also, rather than adding products to the Default Search Category, am I
>> able
>> to simply add existing categories as children and make them searchable?
>> This way, I don't have to continue to copy products from one category into
>> another.  Instead, I could just copy the categories holding those products
>> into the search category.
>>
>> Thanks in advanced.
>>
>
>

[Yoke Power]

Just a thought, Verify if the keyword you are using for the search is
present in the List of Keywords for the product in the Catalog Manager by
going thru Keywords tab for the product.


- YOKEPOWER

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ancheta, Fred <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I am currently working on getting search to work as it does in the
> Ecommerce
> application.  I have already set up a Default Search Category to hold all
> of
> the products in.  Now when I go to search, I get no results at all.  Ive
> even tried adding the products to the Demo Default Search category in
> Ecommerce and searching on the Ecommerce site, but none of the products I
> add can be found.  Am I missing something here?
>
> Also, rather than adding products to the Default Search Category, am I able
> to simply add existing categories as children and make them searchable?
> This way, I don't have to continue to copy products from one category into
> another.  Instead, I could just copy the categories holding those products
> into the search category.
>
> Thanks in advanced.
>

[Abhishake Agarwal]

Hi,

For searching any item,

You have to add product to default_search category and ALL_PRODUCT
Category(If present)

Also check keywordsearch.properties.

Regards,
Abhishake

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Yoke Power <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Just a thought, Verify if the keyword you are using for the search is
> present in the List of Keywords for the product in the Catalog Manager by
> going thru Keywords tab for the product.
>
>
> - YOKEPOWER
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ancheta, Fred <[hidden email]
> >wrote:
>
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I am currently working on getting search to work as it does in the
> > Ecommerce
> > application.  I have already set up a Default Search Category to hold all
> > of
> > the products in.  Now when I go to search, I get no results at all.  Ive
> > even tried adding the products to the Demo Default Search category in
> > Ecommerce and searching on the Ecommerce site, but none of the products I
> > add can be found.  Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Also, rather than adding products to the Default Search Category, am I
> able
> > to simply add existing categories as children and make them searchable?
> > This way, I don't have to continue to copy products from one category
> into
> > another.  Instead, I could just copy the categories holding those
> products
> > into the search category.
> >
> > Thanks in advanced.
> >
>