Another 'Search' Question

Caltrade's thread here apparantly has all you need to fix the member search facility but a search of the forums here doesn't give any clues as to how to edit/change/fix the other searches.

To search Classifieds, for example, you have to select not only the top level category but also the sub-category. All well and good if you know which category the thing you are searching for is placed in, but that isn't always the case.

Is there a way to search all the sub-cats in a top level cat?

The code for sub-cat search at the moment shows each sub-cat with it's own ID, can another ID be created that is 'All' that will search in all of the sub-cats?

<select id="FilterSubCat" style="" name="FilterSubCat">

<option value="160">Networks</option>
<option value="109">Other</option>
<option value="97">Service &amp; Repair</option>
<option value="172">Troubleshooting</option>
<option value="153">Tuition</option>
<option value="155">Upgrades</option>
<option value="101">Virus &amp; Spyware Removal</option>
</select>

Something like an <option value="160,109,97,172,153,155,155,101">All</option> (obviously this wouldn't work, but you should get the idea...)

Quote · 16 Sep 2008

Very good point Lazaru, the classifieds seem to be designed as a rigid hierarchy, and  I find the search facility to be frustrating for a number of reasons.   You want to "delink" the top level search category from the sub categories, which makes perfect sense.  I also wish we could delink the countries field from the member's country, so admin or members could add a classifed from whatever country they want (I am trying to use classifieds for trade leads).  Even better would be if those two optional fields could be modified and searchable.  Right now they seem to be assuming all you want in there is "price" but I would like to use them to define dropdown searches (in my case, I would like to put in the "source" and the "type" or the trade lead).  I appreciate your raising this issue - the more we can learn about this the better.

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Rob

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p.s.  Did we ever solve Lorrens issue about those weird characters " -1()  " - I still have them.

Quote · 16 Sep 2008

"p.s.  Did we ever solve Lorrens issue about those weird characters " -1()  " - I still have them."

I don't have them at all, but then I'm not using the price fields. My classifieds are not for buying/selling so price is not an issue..

It would be nice to be able to use them for other pruposes though, I agree.. I assume that would be something that would take quite a bit of coding so maybe someone could make a mod of some sort?

Quote · 16 Sep 2008
 
 
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