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Fun Tip for Today re: Search

DAZ_Steve_2154153DAZ_Steve_2154153 Posts: 565
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A lot of the fields in the store (such as product name or description) are searchable in a more controlled way is you specify them in the search bar.  For example, try a search for: product name 'morphs'

This will return all products that contain the word Morphs in the product name.  

  As G.I. Joe said in the 80's, Knowing is half the battle :)

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,067
    edited April 2018

    Sorry, but my rtain is going tilt at the moment ... say I go to the store page and in the top right, in the text box that preloads with 'Search Store' I need to enter 'morphs' to look for products that have morphs in the name?  That cannot be the nature of the tip so I must be missing soemthing a bit obvious, could you elaborate?

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,388
    edited April 2018

    Cool.  Thanks

     

    Just tried    Product Name Dynamic   

     

     

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  • ChezjuanChezjuan Posts: 537
    SimonJM said:

    Sorry, but my rtain is going tilt at the moment ... say I go to the store page and in the top right, in the text box that preloads with 'Search Store' I need to enter 'morphs' to look for products that have morphs in the name?  That cannot be the nature of the tip so I must be missing soemthing a bit obvious, could you elaborate?

    I believe the tip is saying that you enter the whole string "product name 'morphs' " to limit the search to only the product name, rather than having it search every field in the entry.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,723

    That's useful

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    morphs gives me 1,672 hits

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,067
    Mistara said:

    morphs gives me 1,672 hits

    Ditto, and strangely the product name seems to contain the word morphs, so not sure how this is working

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,774

    well, maybe search for aomething else, like poses

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,067
    daveso said:

    well, maybe search for aomething else, like poses

    With just ;poses' I ge Animation and Poses: 2203, Places and Things: 718, etc.  A quick peek suggets tehy all contain the word poses in theior titles

    Using 'product name poses' changes that to 729 for Animation and Poses and nothing for Places and Things (the category is not returned).

  • dreamfarmerdreamfarmer Posts: 2,128

    It seems useful for terms like 'medieval'. I get a narrower set with more 'medieval' titles if I do 

    product name 'medieval'

  • ChezjuanChezjuan Posts: 537
    edited April 2018

    It seems to work fine for me. 

    When I enter morphs in the search box, I get the following:

    When I enter Product Name 'morphs' I get a lot less:

    Product name 'streets' is another good example. Relatively few results (only one page, and all of Stonemason's "Streets of..." are there, but if you just enter streets in the search box you get tons more results.

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,067

    That's kind of the point .. you get more results just using the plain word, and those results contain the word so how do you know you are not missing out on an item you are looking for by cutting down the result set?

  • ChezjuanChezjuan Posts: 537

    I see what you're saying. Personally, I would use this tip if I were searching for something specific and knew a part of the name. Like if I wanted to see if there were any other "streets of..." products after I bought one. But if I just wanted morphs or poses, I would use the more broad search.

     

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,067
    Chezjuan said:

    I see what you're saying. Personally, I would use this tip if I were searching for something specific and knew a part of the name. Like if I wanted to see if there were any other "streets of..." products after I bought one. But if I just wanted morphs or poses, I would use the more broad search.

     

    Try (with the quotes) just: "streets of"

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