Exclude product description from smart search?

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7 months 2 weeks ago #360778

-- HikaShop version -- : 5.0.4
-- Joomla version -- : 4.4.3
-- PHP version -- : 8.2.18

Hello everyone,

I'm curious if there's a method to tweak Joomla!'s smart search feature so that it doesn't include product descriptions in its searches. Any insights or tips would be greatly appreciated!

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7 months 2 weeks ago #360779

Hi,

I don't think that the Smart Search component in Joomla has the capability to dismiss some of the indexed content.
From what I can read, it would require not indexing the content in the first place:
forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=1000353
For HikaShop's product description, you can edit the file plugins/finder/hikashop/hikashop_j4.php (or hikashop_j5.php for someone on J5), and then change the line:

return Helper::prepareContent($summary, $params);
to:
return '';
Then, reindex the whole content and it should do it.

Note however that you will loose this change each time you update HikaShop.
To have a permanent solution, you would have to develop a copy of the finder hikashop plugin as suggested on that forum post, but it's a lot of work compared to just changing one line of code after updates...

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7 months 2 weeks ago #360825

Thanks a bunch for this workaround! It's much appreciated!

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