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Coleen
#1 Posted : Saturday, December 8, 2007 10:19:27 PM(UTC)
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www.promomanagers.com search pens


Search returns hats among other things. The hat does not have the word pen anywhere in the description or admin. I have no idea where it's getting a hat is related to a pen but it's the #2 search item.



I'd work on amending the search. Because the keyword search is busted we only found these problems by watching customers come and go on sightmax.
granal1960
#2 Posted : Sunday, December 9, 2007 12:19:40 AM(UTC)
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This low profile anvil cap is an inexPENSive cap with a high quality feel. Great as a giveaway to employees or clients attending a sporting event.
Coleen
#3 Posted : Sunday, December 9, 2007 11:06:38 AM(UTC)
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Yep we caught that later, we were looking for the word pen or pens. Obviously that's not really the way this should work in picking up fragments of whole words.

Is there a possible fix BV?
Marcus
#4 Posted : Sunday, December 9, 2007 11:19:52 AM(UTC)
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C,

The "way it should work" depends on the merchant, their products and their customers. Partial matching covers the broadest amount of our customer base at this time but we're always open to suggestions.
Coleen
#5 Posted : Sunday, December 9, 2007 1:30:18 PM(UTC)
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Marcus but why would it pick out a combination of letters? I've never been to an ecommerce site that does that. Shouldn't it look and place complete matches before partial?

By that logic if our site sold nuts and donuts and someone searched for nuts they'd get donuts first.
Chris Dittmeier
#6 Posted : Sunday, December 9, 2007 2:23:23 PM(UTC)
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Perhaps an option in the Admin Search settings to select whole words only or select word fragments.
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MitchA
#7 Posted : Sunday, December 9, 2007 4:49:50 PM(UTC)
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Maybe search could automatically append searched terms with a space before and after each word or words in a string.

A search for 'pens' would become '_pens_' and wouldn't find inexpensive, but would still find 'gift pens'.


A search on my site for 'vase' returns results for vases and wall shelves, because they make a nice spot to place a vase, but returns nothing for 'vases'. Jeesh!
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Coleen
#8 Posted : Sunday, December 9, 2007 5:04:48 PM(UTC)
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The search is workable now but it's in need of work.

Right now if a customer searches for a sku, say 123 every other item.... HBC123C ABC123 NOT123 will return before 123 alone. That's just not the norm.
jetheredge
#9 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:04:55 AM(UTC)
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Here is a new stored proc that adds some better whole word matching, please try this out on your store and let me know how it works for you. If we feel that this is a significant improvement, then I will release it as a hotfix and we will include it in SP3.1

**** REMOVED AND UPDATED *****
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jetheredge
#10 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:26:01 AM(UTC)
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Oh, and I am still working on the empty search issue.
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jetheredge
#11 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:08:34 PM(UTC)
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Here is the latest version of the search stored proc. It should have resolved the blank search terms issue now as well

*** removed and updated below ***
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jonm
#12 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:15:24 PM(UTC)
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Applying this Stored Procedure works fine but, I am having a problem that is a little wonky in relation to this. If we do a search of a keyword that has multple pages and the user clicks beyond the first page it results in a blank page??

Example: http://www.tvps.com/Search.aspx

In Keyword type in 3750 Click on Go.

It shows multiple pages. Click on the next page button and it results in a blank second page?
-Jonathan Moore
www.tvps.com
MitchA
#13 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:53:31 PM(UTC)
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Jon,

3750 - Search page 1 shows 11 items, page 2, 8 items, page 3, blank.

If you go straight to 'last page', it's blank.

A search for 'cassette' shows 10+ pages, only the first shows results.
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jetheredge
#14 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:23:35 PM(UTC)
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Sorry, here is the same stored proc that shouldn't have the weird paging issues, I believe it has to do with inactive products....

*** updated further down ****
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jonm
#15 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2007 12:06:08 PM(UTC)
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It still having the same problem after applying your new Stored Procedure.
-Jonathan Moore
www.tvps.com
jetheredge
#16 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2007 3:20:41 PM(UTC)
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Sorry, I just deleted that because I believe I just found the issue playing around in my database. I deleted it before I saw your post.
Justin Etheredge
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jonm
#17 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2007 3:23:13 PM(UTC)
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I saw your last post. If you want I can email you access to my sql DB to look around too?
-Jonathan Moore
www.tvps.com
jetheredge
#18 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2007 3:23:41 PM(UTC)
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Yes, that would actually be quite useful.
Justin Etheredge
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jonm
#19 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2007 3:25:53 PM(UTC)
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I just sent you the info.
-Jonathan Moore
www.tvps.com
jetheredge
#20 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2007 3:35:11 PM(UTC)
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I'm looking into it now, thank you.
Justin Etheredge
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