Improve inventory and listing search
Arturo Aubry
Merged in a post:
make the search by name function more precise and accurate
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Emerson Boyle
searching for an item with multiple words will not show up in search, currently only searching by one word will work in the search function.
Arturo Aubry
Hey everyone! You can narrow results down using an exact search. To do that, use quotes around the search terms, like "multiple word search term". It should help with finding what you're looking for.
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Ella
definitely one of the biggest pain points in pitching Trunk to clients: way too broad search results that aren't ranked in order of best match.
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Douglas Gale
I'd like to also advocate for the default behavior of multiple search terms to be treated like a boolean AND as opposed to boolean OR.
Right now, searching for "socks owl" returns everything in my inventory with socks or owls in the title. This is not very intuitive and not the way pretty much every other search works.
Most people's expectation would be for the results in this example to include anything with "sock" AND "owl" in the title.
If you don't want to change the default behavior or you want to give people the option for the more inclusive search, maybe have a radio button list were we select "include all the words", "include any of the words", "exact phrase match" or something like that.
Thanks!
James Hu
Merged in a post:
Search only finds terms that are in sequence
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Kris Rowlands
If I have a title that states "brand half year planner green" and I search "half year green", search returns results that are outside those three search words. If I search "half year", search functions as it should. Search only finds items by words that are right next to each other. Search should find all search words and only those search words within a title.
James Hu
Thanks for reporting this Kris!
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Kris Rowlands
James Hu: You're welcome!
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Kris Rowlands
James Hu: This is still an issue - any idea of when a fix will occur? Thank you!
James Hu
Kris Rowlands: It looks like this isn't actually a bug since the words between quotes should be an exact match so the words to be in exact order in order to match. So "half year green" would only match
"brand half year green planner"
but not:
"brand half year planner green"
Instead, we probably need another search operator. Something like:
half AND year AND green
without quotes, which would then return all results with at least three of those words in the title. Thoughts?
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Kris Rowlands
James Hu: I actually see this as a bug. Most search engines function the way I expect them to, not the way Trunk does. My own website functions as I expect.
James Hu
On behalf of Irene Simonson:
I have a suggestion. when I search for example for "selenite tower" , I get everything with "tower" in the search result. too many irrelevant results especially since the "selenite tower" is not in the beginning of search. it would be very helpful to find the products I search for first. like my selenite towers I start with "ST" and it would be awesome to search all sku that starts with that. trying not to make duplicates