Advanced Search not searching SKUs in variants

[joebeazelman]

Advanced searches SKUs but only if they are not in the options/choices. Is there a way to get it to search the product and its variants.

[AbleMods]

Add the variant skus to the search keywords field on the main product record.

[mazhar]

Already logged
http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7592

[joebeazelman]

Already logged
http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7592

In the bug report, it says that in most cases merchants have dynamically generated SKUs. This may in fact be true for the majority of merchants selling a small number of products who can easily recode their existing SKU system to work with AC7. There are, however, merchants who sell hundreds or even thousands of different products whose customer's need this capability. Some merchants may have a small number of products but have a unique internal SKU generating system. Changing their SKU system to accommodate AbleCommerce's segmented sku system isn't feasible.

AbleCommerce should store SKUs as fixed strings. It will make it easy to search the product database and allows integration with back office systems that will need to lookup a SKU within AbleCommerce. The current system can work, but searching should just assume the SKUs are fixed. I see very little advantage in autogenerated segmented SKUs.