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Posted to user@ofbiz.apache.org by Robert2012 <ga...@mercon24.de> on 2012/03/29 17:26:44 UTC
Webshop: Product search on f.ex. on futures
Hey guys,
i just started to check out the ootb functionality concerning Webstore
frontenend.
Im have seeen a lot of sites (mostly electronic seller) who have for each
catagorie a spezific formular to narrow the product search.
in Ofbiz I found the "advanced search" function, where I can add futures to
the category and afterwards I can choose the future I like to get a better
search result. This is a good start.
But what I dont like is that there is no checking if there is a product with
these futures in that categorie...so I can select futures on product search
and dont get any result.
do someone now how to handle it? IT would be also great if I choose one
future to narrow my results, that all other formulars change to only the
available futures after that.
Example store: http://www.projectorshop24.co.uk/projector/projector.html
You see there the selection of manufacturer and so on.
another thing is, that when I use the sample future "Model Year Features"
every year is listed in the search menu. But I maybe want to search like:
from 1990, from 2000, from 1980 and so on to find similar products.
any ideas?
looking forward to it :)
Kindly
Robert
btw. What is the difference between Futures and Attributes (I now futures
can change for each product, but for what do I use attributes?)
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Re: Webshop: Product search on f.ex. on futures
Posted by Robert2012 <ga...@mercon24.de>.
I just looked a little bit around concerning SOLR, nice project!
Implementation seems not that difficult cause of running in the Java
container and easy API to avoid hundreds of XML scans. I think I will give
it a try :)
If someone allready got the implementation and setup for ofbiz (especially
setup for ofbiz product database) please give us some tips :)
Kindly
Robert
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Re: Webshop: Product search on f.ex. on futures
Posted by Nick Rosser <nr...@salmonllc.com>.
The SOLR re-indexing takes a couple of minutes if you have less than
approx 1000 products. We have other mechanisms to provide "during the
day" updates but for the most part we expect product add/removes to take
place once per day so indexing would be done overnight. It would be
interesting to see if SOLR could accept a "new product" snippet into
it's index.
You're correct, SOLR is part of BigFish ootb, but not currently
available in OFBiz ootb.
We consider SOLR to be a best-of-breed component for this type of
filtering -- IBM recently incorporated the software into their Websphere
eCommerce product.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
nrosser@salmonllc.com
O: 516.742.7888 x221
C: 516.901.1720
On 3/29/2012 12:49 PM, Robert2012 wrote:
> Hey, thanks for your fast replies!
>
> @Nick: The Solr solution is interesting, but you implemented it as a manual
> solution. I think its better to get automated updates in sold db after
> adding / removing products, instead of scanning the whole db again.
>
> @mick: I ll check it out. I want to ahve ofbiz ready for updates in future,
> so I think this solution is going too deep into the core. But maybe I can
> figure out a solution out of that example. I will post after did it, but as
> I said - just starting, so it would take some time :)
>
> So Im right with my speculation, that it is not available ootb - am I?
>
> Or do other user have easier solutions more aspected to the "Best
> Practice"-theorie of apache?
>
> Wish you a nice day!
>
>
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Re: Webshop: Product search on f.ex. on futures
Posted by Robert2012 <ga...@mercon24.de>.
Hey, thanks for your fast replies!
@Nick: The Solr solution is interesting, but you implemented it as a manual
solution. I think its better to get automated updates in sold db after
adding / removing products, instead of scanning the whole db again.
@mick: I ll check it out. I want to ahve ofbiz ready for updates in future,
so I think this solution is going too deep into the core. But maybe I can
figure out a solution out of that example. I will post after did it, but as
I said - just starting, so it would take some time :)
So Im right with my speculation, that it is not available ootb - am I?
Or do other user have easier solutions more aspected to the "Best
Practice"-theorie of apache?
Wish you a nice day!
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Re: Webshop: Product search on f.ex. on futures
Posted by Mike <mz...@gmail.com>.
There is this patch, which I haven't tried:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3925
I'd be interested if it works, and what it looks like.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Robert2012 <ga...@mercon24.de> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> i just started to check out the ootb functionality concerning Webstore
> frontenend.
>
> Im have seeen a lot of sites (mostly electronic seller) who have for each
> catagorie a spezific formular to narrow the product search.
>
> in Ofbiz I found the "advanced search" function, where I can add futures to
> the category and afterwards I can choose the future I like to get a better
> search result. This is a good start.
>
> But what I dont like is that there is no checking if there is a product
> with
> these futures in that categorie...so I can select futures on product search
> and dont get any result.
>
> do someone now how to handle it? IT would be also great if I choose one
> future to narrow my results, that all other formulars change to only the
> available futures after that.
>
> Example store: http://www.projectorshop24.co.uk/projector/projector.html
> You see there the selection of manufacturer and so on.
>
> another thing is, that when I use the sample future "Model Year Features"
> every year is listed in the search menu. But I maybe want to search like:
> from 1990, from 2000, from 1980 and so on to find similar products.
>
> any ideas?
>
> looking forward to it :)
>
> Kindly
>
> Robert
>
> btw. What is the difference between Futures and Attributes (I now futures
> can change for each product, but for what do I use attributes?)
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Webshop-Product-search-on-f-ex-on-futures-tp4515791p4515791.html
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>
Re: Webshop: Product search on f.ex. on futures
Posted by Nick Rosser <nr...@salmonllc.com>.
Robert,
Our BigFish eCommerce solution that leverages OFBiz uses an
implementation from Lucene/SOLR to do exactly what you're looking for.
Check out http://bigfish.salmonllc.com -- we have a "Demo" Electronic
Store that may be of interest to you.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
nrosser@salmonllc.com
O: 516.742.7888 x221
C: 516.901.1720
On 3/29/2012 11:26 AM, Robert2012 wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> i just started to check out the ootb functionality concerning Webstore
> frontenend.
>
> Im have seeen a lot of sites (mostly electronic seller) who have for each
> catagorie a spezific formular to narrow the product search.
>
> in Ofbiz I found the "advanced search" function, where I can add futures to
> the category and afterwards I can choose the future I like to get a better
> search result. This is a good start.
>
> But what I dont like is that there is no checking if there is a product with
> these futures in that categorie...so I can select futures on product search
> and dont get any result.
>
> do someone now how to handle it? IT would be also great if I choose one
> future to narrow my results, that all other formulars change to only the
> available futures after that.
>
> Example store: http://www.projectorshop24.co.uk/projector/projector.html
> You see there the selection of manufacturer and so on.
>
> another thing is, that when I use the sample future "Model Year Features"
> every year is listed in the search menu. But I maybe want to search like:
> from 1990, from 2000, from 1980 and so on to find similar products.
>
> any ideas?
>
> looking forward to it :)
>
> Kindly
>
> Robert
>
> btw. What is the difference between Futures and Attributes (I now futures
> can change for each product, but for what do I use attributes?)
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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