There are various things you can do for this sort of situation which
functionality already built:
1. if a feature is associated with a product the feature description
will be used when mining keywords, so you can enter the author name
(or partial) in the keyword box
2. to limit the features shown in a drop-down do a search in a
category and make sure the category has the proper features
associated with it for the products in that category; there is a tool
in the catalog manager to walk through products in a category and
create feature groups for the features of those products and
associate them with the category
-David
On Sep 5, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Iain Fogg wrote:
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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