by loren_d_c » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:54 am
There are still ways to make this work with Manager via some custom template work.
You could have at least one ShopSite-generated pages with all products in the store assigned to that page so that they will be indexed for the search, and create a blank page template to use for the 'Link Template Override' search setting so that the links to that ShopSite-generated page does not display on the search results screen. And the shoppers can just order the products from the search results, or if you wanted to link the products to your own pages that you have them on, you could put that URL in one of the Extra Product Fields (assuming you have ShopSite Manager v10, since these weren't added to Manager until v10) and display that URL in a link in the search results via a custom product template.
Make sure you have both the 'Product Search Field' and 'Index' checkbox options in the ShopSite-generated page's settings so that the products on it will be indexed, and you can also look at the source of the ShopSite-generated page once it has been Published and copy the HTML of the search form from it and put it on your own pages.
-Loren
-Loren