HOWTO Create an advanced search page

Howto create an advanced search page

We need to create a new page inside Workspace that contains the search form.
This can be done by creating an HTML code that contains only the required content.
This means that you should not include <head> and <html> etc. header tags into this file, because the headers and footers will be loaded from the Workspace automatically.
You can download an example file here. (TIP: right-click the link and select "save target as..")

When the file is ready, use the Workspace File Manager to upload the file into Workspace.
When you create a link to your advanced search page, use the following code:
<a href="?pageID=search.html">Advanced Search</a>
Where the search.html is the name of the file you uploaded into Workspace.
Basic form settings Required settings for the form are:
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" method="POST" name="AdvancedSearch" action="PublishedService" encoding="UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<input name="action" value="advancedsearch" type="hidden">
Implies that this form is for Advanced Search

<input name="file" value="page" type="hidden">
<input name="pageID" value="3" type="hidden">
Tells what page should be shown after the submit (3 = product list)

<input name="advancedsearch.attributes" value="name,publisher,all" type="hidden">
A list of the attributes that are used in this form.
For every attribute, you need to set type and properties:

Attribute Type
<input name="advancedsearch.name" type="text" value="">
This creates an input field for the attribute "name" in which a user can type the search word(s).

<input name="advancedsearch.name.type" value="contains" type="hidden">
This tells that the attribute "name" is a type "contains" attribute.

Possible types are:
contains (if we are looking for a word "auto", the search matches also "automobile", "superauto" etc. strings)
exact (searches only for exact matches, applicable for e.g. item codes)
minvalue (searches only matches that are at least the search string value)
maxvalue (searches only matches that are at most the search string value)
Attribute Properties
<input name="advancedsearch.name.properties" value="name,textInfo2,textInfo3,textInfo4" type="hidden">

Possible properties are:

itemCode	Item code
name	Product name
price	Product price
vat	VAT %
unitPrice	Unit price
unitType	Unit type
packetType	Packet type
packetSize	Packet size
title1 ... title4	Titles 1-4
slogan1 ... slogan4	Slogans 1-4
textInfo1 ... textInfo4	Info texts 1-4
openField1 ... openField20	Open fields 1-20
supplierId	Supplier ID
supplierName	Supplier name
supplierItemCode	Suppliers product item code
manufacturerId	Manufacturer ID
manufacturerName	Manufacturer name
manufacturerItemCode	Manufacturer item code
picture1Alt ... picture5Alt	Picture 1-5 ALT text
file1LinkText ... file5LinkText	File 1-5 link text

Additional form settings
Setting the product groups where the search is effective:

You can restrict the searched groups by giving the group codes. The search is effective only to these groups.

You can restrict the searched groups by giving the group IDs. The search is effective only to these groups.

You can restrict the searched groups by giving the group path names. The search is effective only to these groups.

Setting the ordering rules for the search results:

<input name="advancedsearch.orderby" value="price" type="hidden">
Tells the product field that is used for ordering.
<input name="advancedsearch.orderby.direction" value="desc" type="hidden">
Tells the direction of ordering. (desc = descending, asc = ascending).
Closing the form
You need to close the form by adding the </form> tag in the end.

Examples
View the example file

Other examples:
http://www.kirjapaikka.fi/PublishedService?pageID=laajahaku.html
http://www.suurikuu.fi/PublishedService?pageID=haku.html
http://kauppa.extremevideo.fi/PublishedService?pageID=haku

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