Manufacturer List of Products doesn't work with Sort By

[Mike718NY]

When you select a Category or do a Search, the Manufacturer is displayed in
the list of results of those searches.

When you click a Manufacturer from that list, that Manufacturer is displayed, BUT, . . .
when you Sort By Name, or Price, . . it returns the complete list of products, . . :
it is not sorting just the products from that Manufacturer.

This my confuse a customer. Is there some way to fix this?
Or can I hide the "Sort By" box when the manufacturer list is displayed?

[mazhar]

It should show the proper results when sorting the results selected for some manufacturer, the code tries to do so. It seems that this relates to the following problem.
http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7006

[Mike718NY]

Is there any available fix or work-around for this?
This is going to confuse and annoy the customer.

[mazhar]

Fix for Bug#7006 is included in service release one. Check the following link
http://help.ablecommerce.com/upgrades/a ... _final.htm

[Mike718NY]

I applied the patch and updated my custom
CategoryGridPage.ascx.cs and SearchPage.ascx.cs files,
but it's still doing this.

Is there a way to check in code for /Search.aspx?m=xx (m for manufacturer)
and then have the Sort By drop down not appear?
There is no use in displaying the drop down if it doesn't work.

This is also happening on your 7.0 demo site.

[mazhar]

There seems to be some problem with sort

[mazhar]

In order to hide the sort options when some Manufacturer is selected, edit the ConLib/SearchPage.ascx.cs file then locate and change the following method as below

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protected void BindProductList()
    {
        SortResultsLabel.Visible = !(_ManufacturerId > 0);
        SortResults.Visible = !(_ManufacturerId > 0);
        Trace.Write(this.GetType().ToString(), "Begin BindProductList");
        ProductList.DataSource = ProductDataSource.NarrowSearch(_Keywords, this.CategoryId, _ManufacturerId, 0, 0, _PageSize, (_HiddenPageIndex * _PageSize), SortResults.SelectedValue);
        ProductList.DataBind();
        NoSearchResults.Visible = (_SearchResultCount == 0);
        SearchResultsAjaxPanel.Update();
        Trace.Write(this.GetType().ToString(), "End BindProductList");
    }

In fact the first two lines are newly added and hides the information