I'm importing a large(ish) amount of product data into OFBiz, and am
wondering about the best approach...\
My data is drawn from the book industry, so I have products that have
additional features/attributes/content that I would like to display
and/or search on.
Take a book's author for example. Right now, I am importing the author's
name, storing it as a Feature, and then linking that feature to the
books he has authored.
This works well, except that when I want to search on author, I go to
Advanced Search and the drop-down list that is created for my Author
feature type is populated by only a subset of the available authors. Eg,
I have 25000 authors in the DB, but only those up to surnames starting
with "B" are available in the drop down.
Is there a configuration option to allow me to specify a free-form text
box for the Author search, rather than a drop-down?
Is there a better way to handle this type of data? I looked at Product
Content, but I couldn't see whether it was possible to search on
Content. What about using Product Attributes instead? Same problem?
Advice appreciated,
Cheers, Iain
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