Hello,
Currently I am using the app and pay like £5/ month. However, this function is utter garbage and is so basic.
When searching keywords its very case sensitive, brings up searches in a very unfriendly way and displays the searches as pictures and prices only in the store, no descriptions are shown.
IS there a better way, I am finding Wix very restricted now. Can it be coded? Anyone able to Help???
Hey
Do you mean that you want to create a search for products within the Wix Stores? If so enable the developer tools in your Wix Editor and you will see Products and Collections as Data Collections.
And… Because of those exposed now you can drag out a Dataset to your page and use the setFilter function to search products. So that will be applied as searching through any Data Collection in Wix Code except you will use “Stores/Products” as your data collection name and be aware that there is no Title field in Products, it is called Name and the fieldKey is name .
Look at this video on how to do it
Hope I could help you, good luck.
Thanks, will this work on mobile too?
Hi,
It should work on mobile too. Maybe you’ll need to modify the code a bit with the formFactor function in case you want to display the elements a bit different.
Good luck!
Tal.
Anyone able to help with this? I am willing to pay for someone to do this for me.
What is that do not work? You can always get paid support at wixshow.com in the Get Help area but if explained well and we can understand what exactly you have that don’t work we can maybe solve it here instead.
Hello Andreas,
Please try out my website Store and use the current search bar.
You will see how unfriendly it is, I want to improve the search function when looking for items in the store when using keywords.
At the moment when searching for example brakes and press ENTER it brings up only pictures and prices, no description of the item.
In an ideal world I wish I could get a submenu off the store menu.
I have had to add the search bar because on the mobile when viewing the store it doesn’t show the collection on the left hand side like it does on the desktop.
It is a bit narrow in width otherwise I think it is very very good. What is the problem with it or what do you want to improve.
@andreas-kviby Yes it looks OK like this but try pressing enter after searching. It brings up all the items in a new page but no text is displayed.
EDIT: I think I found a problem. The text is in black so you cant see this with a black background. I shall try to change this now.
OK I solved the issue.
As I realised no text showing in the results page was due to my description text being set to black and with the black background it wasn’t showing. Now this has been set to white and now shows. GREAT!!!
However…
I would still like a search function to be available instead of having to pay £5 per month for this very basic one. I don’t like how the results are displayed. It looks like the function uses google to display the stores items.
and…
as I mentioned above, when using your mobile to view the store it doesn’t display the collections that are shown on the left hand side of the page when searching on a desktop computer.
Is there a way to integrate these?
Without the collections which filter products into their correct category its hard to find the right product when using a mobile device when searching the store.
The only way to find items is via the search function which is why I need a good search bar to display the results.
