Drill Down / Custom Search Field speed
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Topic: Drill Down / Custom Search Field speed
Posted By: blackey
Subject: Drill Down / Custom Search Field speed
Date Posted: 28-November-2009 at 7:07pm
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Is there a way to speed this up, especially using multiple CSF's per category. I'd like to have a category with several thousand products and then use the drill down menus to filter the results until the customer has what he wants. I have found this can take several minutes as you narrow the results with each CSF. Example http://www.lpiracing.com/racing-parts/pc/viewcategories.asp?idcategory=12783 - http://www.lpiracing.com/racing-parts/pc/viewcategories.asp?idcategory=12783 http://www.lpiracing.com - www.lpiracing.com |
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Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 28-November-2009 at 7:56pm
This is currently a feature limitation. The feature (Drill Down Navigation) does not perform well when you have a large amount of products assigned to a category that uses Custom Search Fields for Drill Down Navigation. We are aware of this limitation, but there is no easy or quick fix. We've tried many different ways to improve performance, but have not yet found a better way to go than what we are doing today. At this time, use categories to bring people to a sub-category that contains hundreds, not thousands of items, then allow them to use Drill Down Navigation to narrow down their search. Otherwise, bring customers to the advanced search page (you could customize the look of that page to make Custom Search Fields more prominent there, for example). In the future, we'll look at ways to make things faster. ------------- The ProductCart Team Home of ProductCart http://www.productcart.com" rel="nofollow - shopping cart software |
blackey wrote:Posted By: blackey
Date Posted: 29-November-2009 at 11:32am
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OK, Thanks. Good to know. Bill http://www.lpiracing.com - www.lpiracing.com |
Posted By: imagineds
Date Posted: 03-February-2010 at 2:27pm
| Is there a way to set up a filter for an individual product that has custom fields? For example, we sell widgets, and there are number of variables filter levels to get to a product. Essentially I'd like take the search fields option at the bottom of search.asp and put it on a product page for a particular product. Thank you. |
Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 03-February-2010 at 8:02pm
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Hi Imagineds, Can you provide more details and/or a link to an example? I think it would be quite a project to add the filters to a product and not what they are designed for really - they are there to help identify a particular product not filter "within" a product - but I suspect I've misunderstood what your after. ------------- Editing ProductCart Code? See http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/developers/editcode" rel="nofollow - WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code |
Posted By: imagineds
Date Posted: 04-February-2010 at 10:45am
| Hamish, thank you for your reply. What I am trying to replicate is something like what I have here: http://www.fastcap.com/builder/partnumberbuilder.asp. The main addition would be that I would need to have a button to buy the product after the filters have been applied. Currently that sample page is from our old site and exist from a separate database from the store. However, I have already used Custom Search Fields in our store, so I would think that it should be possible to replicate something similar within the store. |