Search filter exact words, but multiple

Hi,

I'm not clear on your situation or on what you need to do so I can't say for sure what is the exact solution.
So, I will present what is available. To search text on products, you have two ways to go about it:
1. You use the Joomla search module and the HikaShop products search plugin. If you have the "Use Search Options" setting of the search component of Joomla activated, after you do the search via the module, you will see the results page with add the top options to tell the search system if it should be exact terms or not etc.
2. You use the HikaShop filter module, and create a "text" filter via the menu Display>Filters of HikaShop. In the settings of the filter, you'll find the option "Search processing" that you can configure to "exact" or "any word" or "every word".

Hi,

I would recommend to indeed create a custom product field of the type "text" so that you can enter the serials of a product in that custom field on the product edit interface of that product.
I would simply write them all in the field separated by a space.
Then, be it in the filter you created for your search in the Display>Filters menu, or in the settings of the HikaShop products search plugin, you'll find a setting to select the columns on which the search will be done and you can just select the column of that custom field in there.
Then, if you enter 1235 or 1256 in the search input field, you should be able to get the part 001 product as a result.

Hi,

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean. Could you provide some examples to illustrate why the exact mode is not ok for you, and why the other modes are not ok for you and how you want it to behave?

Hi,

Ok, now I understand that the "exact" mode on one field can't work for what you want.
If you select another mode, like "any word", then if you search for 123, you'll get your result as expected.
But rereading this thread from the beginning, I understand that the other modes won't work since you want the results to appear only when the full serial number is entered.

An alternative I can see is to create 10 or 20 custom product fields (serial 1, serial 2, serial 3, etc). Basically, for as many serials a product can have as possible.
Then, select all these custom fields in your filter, and in each product, enter only one serial for each custom field. That way, you can keep using the "exact" mode and it will meet both of your requirements.