Create custom search - Taxonomy fields

Posted by Piccolo on November 29, 2012 at 11:10am

Hey,

I've been creating an Online Catalogue for a company. I have many Taxonomy vocabularies as categories and Taxonomy terms as products. The terms include the fields: part number, part brand, part category, part description, ATM model.

Now I've been asked to create a advanced search on the frontpage. The search would be really similar to this on:

http://www.atm-parts-testlink.com/

Now I'm looking a way on Drupal to create an advanced search for Taxonomy terms. The idea is that you could choose the search terms for Taxonomy term's every field. Just like it works on the link above.'

I'm hoping to receive some instructions regarding this issue. Right now I have no idea what kind of module to use to create this search feature.

Kind regards,
Niko Huhtaniemi

Comments

Why you not using View with

Posted by BlackyWhoElse on November 29, 2012 at 12:25pm

Why you not using View with Exposed Filters ? Or even Better Exposed Filters

Until the server crashes you're doing it quite right

Might be it

Posted by Piccolo on November 29, 2012 at 1:24pm

Hmm, I am already using View for browsing the Taxonomy vocabularies as product categories. I have to tell you I am a beginner with Drupal, and I'm not a coder person. I really don't have a clue how to move on with this. Do you think View or Better Exposed Filters is all I need to create a search likewise to this:

http://www.atm-parts-testlink.com/

Kind regards,
Niko Huhtaniemi

I think so.Better Exposed

Posted by BlackyWhoElse on November 29, 2012 at 2:44pm

I think so.
Better Exposed Filter is just an addon to display the filter in nicer ways. The rest is all contextual stuff.
May this will help you. :)
http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/using-drupal-contextual-filters-views

Until the server crashes you're doing it quite right

I found this

Posted by Piccolo on November 30, 2012 at 12:41pm

I found this module:

http://drupal.org/project/term_search

It´s a module that adds taxonomy term titles to the search criteria. This helps me a lot, but I would also need it to look from the taxonomy term content. I have some information on every term´s content, like brand, category etc. So I would need some help to configure the Term Search to look from the term´s content also. When that is settled, I could use the advanced search as a normal search with the help of Custom Search.

http://drupal.org/project/custom_search

I´m also contacting the module developer if he could modify the module to work in the way like this.

Tell me if you know the solution!

Kind regards,
Niko Huhtaniemi

BUMP:http://drupal.org/node/

Posted by Piccolo on December 6, 2012 at 2:45pm

So,

This was easily done with Filters on Views. Now the search works as it should be working!

Thanks you for your help!

Kind regards,
Niko Huhtaniemi