For some reason, I cannot search on numerical strings on my K2 site.  Regardless of whether the number is in the item title, as in 288-Antique Chinese Hat or in the description text, or in the additional fields.

 

I have read about the extrafiels searching issue and to avoid that, we are placing the SKU number in the item title.  But searching on 288 doesn't work; searching on antique does?

 

Even stranger, I have this working on a different K2 site - and on that one I can even search on extra fields without adding any extra components...

 

Does anyone have suggestions as to why the numbers don't show up.  I have tried other search modules, none seem to work...

 

Thanks,

Andrew

I tried the solution in this post:

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/problem-with-the-new?commentId=3536014%3AComment%3A36749

but it didn't work.

Anyone else got any ideas...

OK - I have figured out why this is not working.  Turns out that the search engine ignores all strings in the site that consist of less than 3 characters.  This is true for numbers and words.  So in my case if the SKU number is only 3 digits, no result is returned.  If four digits, putting 2, 3 or 4 matching digits in the search field returns results that exist in the database with 4 or more digits.

 

I presume this is done to reduce unwanted hits against common words (conjunctions, prepositions, etc).

 

However it would be nice to be able to change a setting that allows one to define the minimum number of numerical digits that constitute a real number - otherwise I have to get the client to change all their skus...

 

Any thoughts on this?

 

Andrew

I have the same problem, I have a site where I have a directory of University programs and courses. I found a way around this. Not a nice one, but it seems to work. Before, if I tried to search for 120 hp, I got no hits at all, but I found out that if I put 120hp (without a space between) in my metadata it actually searches and finds both 120 and 120 hp. As I said, not a very good solution, but since this just have to work it's better than nothing. 

/Linda
Andrew Neighbour said:

OK - I have figured out why this is not working.  Turns out that the search engine ignores all strings in the site that consist of less than 3 characters.  This is true for numbers and words.  So in my case if the SKU number is only 3 digits, no result is returned.  If four digits, putting 2, 3 or 4 matching digits in the search field returns results that exist in the database with 4 or more digits.

 

I presume this is done to reduce unwanted hits against common words (conjunctions, prepositions, etc).

 

However it would be nice to be able to change a setting that allows one to define the minimum number of numerical digits that constitute a real number - otherwise I have to get the client to change all their skus...

 

Any thoughts on this?

 

Andrew

I fixed mine by convincing the client to add leading zeros to their sku numbers so that each was a minimum of 4 digits.  Your approach should work if a future client doesn't want to do that.  Thanks, A

Hi. I've tried every search plugin but without any solution. Articles on the shop I've just st up are a name with number: if you want to search the name, everything works fine but if cannot search for the number es. 525-14. Thanks, Alessandro