Search / Product Finder not displaying search results

[harris43]

When I use the search box to search, in a 3 column layout, the right column shows the "Narrow or Expand Results" box, but the main content area shows everything in the store. It's not until you choose a category in the "Narrow or Expand Results" box that it reduces the number of items.

This is not what the customer would expect to happen. How do I change this? Do other people have this problem?

[mazhar]

This sort of behavior is already under consideration and its happens when you move the CategorySearchSidebar control to ConLib/Custom folder. Please read the following bug
http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7010
If you have the same case then for a quick workaround just move the CategorySearchSidebar control to ConLib and use it from there

[harris43]

And where is it now?
My conlib already has CategorySearchSidebar.ascx and ascx.cs in it.

I'm still trying to get the hang of asp.net.

[mazhar]

On the Search Page Edit the Category Search scriptlet and check if it is something like

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[[ConLib:Custom\CategorySearchSidebar]]

then change it as below

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[[ConLib:CategorySearchSidebar]]

[harris43]

Good that works. Though I'm actually using both instead of just the new one. Leaving only the new text in there gave me a results page that didn't show any products. It was just showing me categories and when I drilled down, I never saw anything.

Anyway, I'm good. Thank you.