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I want to have some different ways of displaying summary information on the entire product catalogue (for a plant nursery), so that customers can have different ways of finding the plant they're looking for, which they'd select eg. from links in an infoBox. One of these is an alphabetical listing which can be filtered by letter -- ie. click on [A] [C] [D] [E] [F] ... etc at the top of the page to display all products beginning with that letter, and with the option to sort/display on either botanical name or common name. I want this in addition to the standard osC display-by-category via catalog/index.php, and with a slightly different set of values (ie. excluding images) to the ones defined in Admin > Configuration > Product Listing for that page. Does anyone know of a contribution that adds this capability?

I installed this contribution following Sam's response on this thread, but I'm not sure whether I've understood how to use it correctly, or whether I haven't explained what I was after very well. I don't want to search categories as such. I want to search by product field, either across all categories or by category. The product database contains text fields describing various plant characteristics and I want to be able to limit searches to specific fields. eg. if I'm wanting flower colour=red then I don't want foliage colour=red in the search results. If I'm wanting to find plants that thrive in chalky soils, I don't want the results containing plants that can't grow in chalk. So I need a filter for linking a search term, eg. red or chalk, to a specific field, eg. flower colour or soil type, and giving results only where the field products_flower_colour contains 'red' and the field products_soil_type contains 'challk'. Does this contribution do that? Or can it be easily modified to do that? At the moment, if I click the search categories check box, which is the only visible addition to the advanced search page, then I just get the results "There is no category that matches the search criteria."

Cheers Sam. Thanks for that. Looks like just what I need.

I've incorporated Add New Product Fields into my installation and it's working fine. With this contribution I'm able to search on any of the content in my added fields, but not to target the search to a specific field. I would like to do this via individual search boxes for some of my additional product fields. The installation is for a plant nursery, so it would be useful for customers to be able to put 'red' into the Flower Colour field and have all the red flowers come up. At the moment, searching on 'red' they'd get all the plants with red foliage as well. Does anyone know of a contribution that would allow me to do this? Or whether I could add code to the catalog/advanced_search.php file which would take care of this? (PS. Is it just me that finds the search function on both these forums and the osC site pretty dismal? I get far more appropriate results using Google.)