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Tomas Gomez
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Posted on 09/01/2023 13:06:23

Hi,

It would be nice that the main search in the header of the page would be able to search by a category product. This way, a selector would be displayed to choose the product category, with "All" products selected by default.  At the backend, the Search item would have a checkbox "Search by category" to show/hide the selector in the search bar.

This is a standard feature in many websites, e.g. Amazon (see image)

AFAIK this feature is not in Swift, so I am going to implementing by adding the selector in Swift_SearchField.cshtml. Is this ok?

Regards,
Tomas

 

 


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Nuno Aguiar Dynamicweb Employee
Nuno Aguiar
Posted on 09/01/2023 14:09:01
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Hi Tomas,

 

We are also implementing it on a site for a customer. Some additional thoughts are:

  • Consider only Top Groups OR picking a parent Groups
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  • A group custom field (checkbox) for "Enable in search field"
    So that you don't render all groups  - specially if you have integration bringing those fields directly

 

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

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Tomas Gomez
Posted on 09/01/2023 14:12:32
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Hi Nuno,

Thanks for the suggestions, I like specially the "Enable in search field" group custom field  :-)

Regards,
Tomas