[ic] Hide "out of stock" items from search

[Ed LaFrance]

At 11:01 PM 07/18/2001 -0400, you wrote:


>Jim Balcom wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Garry wrote:
> >
> > G>>How difficult would it be to hide "out of stock" items from showing 
> on the
> > G>>results page?
> >
> > In the inventory section, I enter a quantity of 100000000
> >
> > Once in a while, when I am closing something out I use that to keep
> > people from ordering something that is all gone, or ordering more than
> > is left.
>
>I don't know how its done now but I used a simple routine that would
>simply not display anythign with a quanity of zero. I also did some
>hackery that prevented people from ordering more items than existed at
>that time. If they did then their order woudl be reduced and a warning
>displayed.
>
>It wasn't really that hard. Its just a matter of some [if]s and a couple

Another way is to add a few terms to a coordinated search of products:

sf=iventory:quantity
se=1
op=>=
nu=1

But to do this, you need to go into the Design editor in the UI, and change 
the searches for Categories (and/or Areas, if any of those links are 
searches) to complex searches, and write your own search terms.  You'll 
also need to add the search terms to the 
yourcat/templates/components/search_box_* files.

- Ed L.



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