By Emma on

Has anyone considered and/or attempted hooking the Ubercart Attributes system into the Faceted Search module and its API?

I need my customers to be able to browse products based on the existence or availability of certain product attribute options (the way that most online apparel stores work, for example).

How much would it cost to get this sorted? Or am I missing an obvious solution! (On shared hosting at the moment so can't use Solr)

Thanks,
Emma

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ilw’s picture

ilw commented

+1

I would like to here some news about it...

Edward C. Zimmermann’s picture

Edward C. Zimmermann commented

  1. Generic attributes are not really the way to drive facets. In ecommerce you want the facets to drive the customer along specific paths to products. The typical way for a shop is to define (one or more) paths to items: for example, 
    clothing->womens->business->skirts->Model X
clothing->spring->womens->bottoms->skirts->dressy->Model X
clothing->wool->medium weight->skirts->black->Model X

    The model X then has the attributes: size 14, colour black etc.

  2. Shared hosting does not disallow a solution. Search should anyway be offloaded from the RDBMs. We use a client server approach with a simple module to communicate with the back-end search server-- which can be located anywhere.