Heavily filtered search - how?

Hello,

I do not understand how to do the following, I read the documentation but it hasn't really helped.

I want to give products certain properties and then be able to make a filtered search based on that.

Am I supposed to make a new filter or a new custom field?

For example, I want to give these options:

1) radio boxes (red, green, blue)
2) price range (2 text boxes so user inputs both prices to search inbetween)

that would be enough for the beginning, I just want to see how it's done.

I made a category with 4 products, I made the category link appear on the front page so all that is well, I just don't know how to add and search custom properties.

Thanks

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OK I think I gave custom fields to products that work, I added a new custom field for table product, chose a category and basically the option to choose something showed up in the specific product options.

But how do I connect filters to that? I made a new radio buttons filter (hopefully), I applied it on CUSTOM FIELDS (is that what I am supposed to do?), and I made the filter module appear but it is giving an error message of "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-5.3.8.1\www\hikashop\administrator\components\com_hikashop\classes\filter.php on line 1188"

Hi,

I think that you can do it by :

1. Creating a filter with :
- The type option set to "Radio button"
- The Apply on option set to "Characteristics"
- The Characteristic option set to your caracterstic "color" for example

3. Creating a filter with :
- The type option set to "multiple dropdown"
- The Apply on option set to "price"

Hope this will help you a little.

Hello,

I did what you said but I can't really test it as I am still getting the warning php error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-5.3.8.1\www\hikashop\administrator\components\com_hikashop\classes\filter.php on line 1188

Do you you have the last version of Hikashop ?

Yes, and PHP 5.3.8

There is some miscommunication here.

1) I have a category with three products.

2) I made ONE custom field in table PRODUCT with a field type of RADIO BUTTON and gave 3 default values of RED, GREEN and BLUE, AND I added the category I made to this custom field.

3) I then went back to my products, and at the BOTTOM of each one the option to choose from the radio button options I made earlier appeared, and I chose a different color for each of the 3 products, for the first product i chose red, second green and third blue (I also clicked on characteristics but nothing was there, was there supposed to be something there ?????????????? )

4) I then made a filter with a type of Radio Button and and applied it on CHARACTERISTICS (as Mohamed suggested) - also, when I applied it on characteristics, the characteristics dropdown was EMPTY

5) I then made a filter module and added the filter I just made to it, made it appear on the front page and it gave me the error I already said.

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Those are my exact steps, so what do you mean by "custom field or characteristic without any values" ?

I think the problem is with no characteristics in product options, but I don't know how to get them there (as I said when i click on characteristics in product options, it's empty).

Also, I would prefer to filter by searching thru the custom fields, not characteristics (whatever that is)

Please advise

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WHAT I WANT TO DO - in case what i want to do or i am doing something wrong - here it goes:

Like I said I have just 3 products, I want the first of them to be searchable by clicking on red radio box, second by clicking blue, and third by clicking green.

Hello,

There is no error message now, I get 3 radio boxes but I get no results returned.

The URL looks like this: http://127.0.0.1:8887/hikashop/index.php/component/hikashop/product/listing?Itemid=0

What's the problem?

(as i already said, I have 1 custom radio buttons field with 3 values and 3 products and I chose different one for each product in product settings)

I think I enabled products listing, but now I get the category link (the one where my 3 products are) as the search result, regardless of whether I choose red, green or blue.

This is the url: http://127.0.0.1:8887/hikashop/index.php/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing/category

(I'm guessing we're almost there )

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Instead of insisting on making a category listing content menu, I made a new menu item and assigned product listing of the appropriate category to it, and it works.

I still think it should've worked with category listing content module, but this works for me as well.

So far so good!

Thanks