Smart Search

[cas]

Hi franzpeter,

Your plugin looks good to me. The websites I take care of have less than 1000 products, so it should work fine.  At least it's better than nothing, which is the only other alternative!  I'll be sure to re-index on a regular basis, so any product changes will be found by the search.  How can I get your plugin to give it a try?

Thanks,
Chuck 

[cas]

Hi franzpeter,

How can I get your plugin to give it a try?

Thanks,
Chuck 

[razor7]

Hi! Does VM plan to implement Smart Search indexing on product save/edit? Thanks!

[Studio 42]

@razor7
Smart search need a trigger, so if Max do not add the trigger, it's not possible.
See for eg JOOMLASITE\plugins\finder\content\content.php for all the plugin trigger to implement

As always, the team now want a member subscription to add a feature. So if you need it, you have to pay the team because this need core hacks to do it work on save/delete/unpublish ....

See here how they implement it for Joomla content https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/plugins/content/finder/finder.php

[AH]

So if you need it, you have to pay the team because this need core hacks

If you need a feature and you cannot do without it, and there are no plugins - then yes you may ask the developers if they can do something to meet your specific business requirements.

As always, the team now want a member subscription to add a feature.

Membership is not about adding a feature:-

https://extensions.virtuemart.net/support-updates/virtuemart-membership

Features are being added all the time without membership. 

New core features are available to everyone regardless of membership status.

Membership does not guarantee that a specific feature will be added.

[razor7]

Well, there are this two plugins for Smart Search already developed, and so far, I can tell they work. I enable them, run the smart search indexer and the products magically appear in searches, and the search results are pretty accurate and flexible. The issue s that the indexer should be filled at product save/edit. Lack of that trigger forces me to run indexer to index new products regularly and it's a really slow process.

Maybe VM devs can take this plugins into VM and develop the index on save trigger.

https://github.com/trevorbicewebdesign/Smart-Search-Virtuemart-Categories
https://github.com/deputt/Smart-Search-Virtuemart-Product