Control The Order of the Search Results

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

It depends on the outside party. We have one site using AddSearch . com. Its "ok", and pretty simple to implement. We have a Google custom site search intergration available soon, but its not for everyone as it depends on how well google has index your site. You can get an idea of that by simply adding site:mydomain.com to your search request.

[William Davis]

It depends on the outside party. We have one site using AddSearch . com. Its "ok", and pretty simple to implement. We have a Google custom site search intergration available soon, but its not for everyone as it depends on how well google has index your site. You can get an idea of that by simply adding site:mydomain.com to your search request.

I guess a "Site Search Universal Vendor Integration" module for Miva is not in the realm of possibilities?

[KayfabeRockStar]

Bruce -- and anyone else -- I was able to get the sorting working by the custom field and it works great! The code wrote was the beginning, but I found what needed to be changed in order for it use the search results listing not the category listing. For now, this seems to suit our needs of controlling the order a bit - by putting items with the keyword in the product title FIRST and then anything else containing the keyword(s).

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

I guess a "Site Search Universal Vendor Integration" module for Miva is not in the realm of possibilities?

Most 3rd party search vendors return results directly to a miva page template. Integrations typically require adding a simple form to request the search and then and a few lines of code to capture the results. They provide both pieces of code. The biggest issue is making the return results match your site...which no module is really going to help accomplish.

[KayfabeRockStar]

Ok - one more question. Can I do something to control the order of the autocomplete in the search bar? While the search results are in the order I want now, the search bar still shows them in the old order.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Ok - one more question. Can I do something to control the order of the autocomplete in the search bar? While the search results are in the order I want now, the search bar still shows them in the old order.

Not without a lot of javascript coding i presume. (Never played with it--but actually have to do something similar for a client later this week...so maybe I'll know more, but I assume this is all done in JS.)

[KayfabeRockStar]

I was thinking this too but I didn't actually see where it queries the products.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

ok, we lucked out...you should be able to run similar code by modifying the array in the User Interface | Search Settings : Search Preview (Menu Item Template).

[KayfabeRockStar]

I'll play with it.

[KayfabeRockStar]

Ok - I'm stumped. A little hint?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Try this in the Search Settings Javascript template:

Replace the MMSearchField.prototype.onMenuAppendItem function with the following:

MMSearchField.prototype.onMenuAppendItem = function (data) {
if(data) {    let span;

    span = newElement('div', {'class': 'u-text-center t-search-preview__item'}, null, null);
    span.innerHTML = data;

    return span;
}
};

[KayfabeRockStar]

This doesn't change anything and I don't understand how this targets sorting by my custom field. I'm not seeing how the quicksort and this js go together. Sorry I'm so confused!

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

oh, sorry, i was thinking of someone else's issue with blank spaces in search results.

[KayfabeRockStar]

Lol. So nothing in regards to you having lucked out?