Couple of Questions about Cataloger

[finster]

Hi all,

I have a quick couple of questions about the (excellent) Cataloger module: -

1. Can multiple cataloger modules be installed on the same site? i.e. If I want 2 catalogs of totally different items (for example, products and stores), is this possible? Would it be a matter of just copying the cataloger files into a different directory in "modules"? Or am I totally missing the point and there's an easier way to achieve this?

2. Are the catalog items searchable? i.e. will a module like pisearch pick them up in the search results, and if so is there a quick way I could limit the type of search (i.e to only products or only stores)?

Thanks in advance.

[HMTKSteve]

I think you can emulate multiple catalogs by using sub-categories (category attributes)

[finster]

Thanks,

I must admit, I've not had a lot of time to play with the cataloger - does anybody know if sub-categories will do what I want as HMTKSteve  suggested?

For anybody interested, I've figured out how to get pisearch to search my catalog items - change the large SELECT statement on line 411

From:

Code: Select all

AND c.type='content'

To:

Code: Select all

AND c.type IN ('content','catalogitem') 

[HMTKSteve]

I made the change and it is still not searching my catalog items... I wonder what else I might be doing wrong...

[climberusa]

Thanks for this! I was wondering today why it wasn't finding that info but it works great now!

[HMTKSteve]

Thanks,

I must admit, I've not had a lot of time to play with the cataloger - does anybody know if sub-categories will do what I want as HMTKSteve  suggested?

For anybody interested, I've figured out how to get pisearch to search my catalog items - change the large SELECT statement on line 411

From:

Code: Select all

AND c.type='content'

To:

Code: Select all

AND c.type IN ('content','catalogitem') 

What modules/versions are you running because this has no effect for me.

[finster]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in replying.

I am running CMS Made Simple 0.13 Final, pisearch 1.01 and cataloger 0.4.2.

My hack to the SQL seemed to work fine for me - the way I got it working was to copy the SQL into MySQL Query Browser (or phpMyAdmin if you have that), and then run it to see which rows come back. I then just added the extra type and it worked...

[paragulka]

hello finster, can you tell a newbie exactly what file did you modify?

[finster]

Hi,

It was modules\pisearch\pisearch.module.php

Hope that helps...

[paragulka]

THANKS!

That worked for me!

I actually found the same line in the TAG-based pisearch and in the function.pisearch.php i changed the same line. i evne added catalogcategory to the list and now it finds words from category notes as well.

SWEEET!!

Thanks again!