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The purpose of Power Search is to allow a customer to search one or more fields which are allowed by the store owner. The store owner can choose any fields within the products database and/or the custom product fields (Miva Corp built-in utility module) database to be searchable. This module is for MIVA Merchant 5.5 or newer. If you are still using Merchant 5.0, contact me for availability of a module for that version. No expensive monthly search fee with this module. Features: - Implements product field specific, keyword searching - Uses store morph technology to build templates with version history - Customer selects the fields to search and the sort order they want the results displayed - Search the whole store or limit to one category - Search by all (AND), any (OR), exact phrase, or begins with - Display total found, number of pages, and links to each page when the results exceed one page - Use the same product list layout as original search or alter for your needs - Can limit search to a specific price range - Use in conjunction with our Tell A Friend module to send searches to a friend - Product page "return to search" link takes customers back to the same search page - Searches category names, codes, headers and footers - View admin log of searched words/phrases for marketing and keyword identification - Maintain compatibility with 3rd party modules which use the MIVA Corp custom product fields - Create pre-defined select list searches on a single field - Recent search history display - Highlight search words in name and brief description - Count by category - No monthly search fee - License per domain/mall Feature Details. Easily editable templates. The module has five templates which can be used for each section of the search page. The templates have full version history and use standard Merchant 5 template coding for easy update and rollback of changes. Each template is pulled into the location you want it on the search page using a render token. The templates are field selection, category selection, search scope/type, page counter and links, and product list layout. Search specific fields and sort results. Allow a customer to search one or more fields which are made selectable by the store owner. The store owner can choose, in the admin screen, any fields within the products database or the MIVA Merchant built in custom product fields database to be available. The Power Search module uses a mirror database of your products, custom fields and categories; much like the big search engines use. By creating a mirror before the search is made, many operations to join multiple databases together can be avoided, so the customer gets a much faster search. Customers can also sort the results on fields like name, code, price, cost, when they were added to the store, or the default display order the store owner established for product lists. The build of the mirror database goes quite quickly and is a maintenance procedure you will do periodically. The small amount of time you take to build the mirror will save your customers significant amounts of time in their searches vs searches which don't use an optimized mirror database. Building the mirror is not required just because products are added, deleted, or edited; as those processes update the mirror automatically without needing a rebuild. See the install doc for details. Category selectable. Customers can use the category selector to select just one category to search. The default is to search the whole store. You can use the built in token which lists all categories with one or more products in them or you can build your own select list of only certain categories. Multiple search types. The customer can select how they want to search the database. The default is to search for products where all (boolean AND) of the keywords entered are found in the record. The customer can broaden that search so that any (boolean OR) of the words are found in the record. They can search by exact phrase so that the words must appear in the same order in the record as was entered in the search input. They can also search the fields where the data in the field begins with the search string. This is useful for things like finding all of the products whose NAME begins with a specific letter and allows you to have a list of A-Z links that implement that specific search. Advanced pagination. The module can display the total number of products found which match the search condition. Additionally, the pages are numbered, e.g. Page 3 of 20, when results exceed the configurable number of products per page. You can also display a list of page numbers and links to those pages so the customer can jump to the page they want to look at. This pagination is similar to that used in our Category Manager module. Product layout template can be customized. In the 'srch' page template, there is a "search results layout". If you are happy with that layout, you can copy and paste the contents of that template into the Power Search module's product layout template. You can then modify the layout in the Power Search admin screen. Price range searching. While searching the price field might be useful in some cases, a more popular search is price range. Within the searchable fields section, the customer has the option of entering a low and high price to create a range. If left blank, the search will not be filtered by price range. Category field search. Customers can also search the category name, code, headers and footers for the search word(s). Tell a friend module interface. If the store is using the Emporium Plus Tell A Friend module, customers can send the search string from Power Search to friends. The link in the email will go to the same page of products that the customer was on when they clicked the Tell A Friend button. Return to search page link. After going to the product page from a Power Search rendered search, a convenient "return to search" link on the product page can bring the customer back to the original search page. Search log with admin report. In admin, you can view the log of search words/phrases which your customers have used. This helps you from a marketing standpoint to determine the most sought after products and possibly the need to carry a new product. Additionally, it helps you identify keywords which might be useful to include in the narrative descriptions or the meta tags for search engine submissions and even local searches in your store. As example, while you might have a product called flip flops, customers might be searching for thong sandals (which is the same thing). But if you had not used those words in your description, you may have lost the sale. The log can be purged in the admin screen to reduce its size as desired. Optimized search of built-in custom product fields. This module does not require that you use a proprietary 3rd party module for the custom product fields. It uses the built-in custom product fields module from MIVA Corp, thereby ensuring compatibility with other 3rd party modules which use those same custom product fields. No need to go down that proprietary datafield path of no return. As example, the Template Data Feed module can use the built-in custom product fields to populate feeds to just about any search engine and shopping index with those "special" fields those indexes require. Recent Search History. You can add a drop down on any page to display the recently searched key words. Count by Category. You can include a list of categories that the found items are in along with the count of the number of hits in each of those categories. Live examples. Check out the selected field search in our MIVA Merchant 5.x test store. We have about 600 products in that store with multiple custom product fields. Try some searches at Pin Emporium so you can get an idea of search speed. Pre-defined selectors. The Power Search function can also be used for pre-defined select pulldowns in your store. As an example, the genre and decade searches in the lower left column of the Pin Emporium storefront screen will search a specific field, with store owner pre-defined selections. This same technique can be used for things like manufacturer searches if you have a manufacturer field in your custom product fields. No expensive monthly search fee. Unlike some advanced search solutions, this module does not require a monthly licensing fee to continue to use the module. It does not limit the number of searches based on a license fee level. Liberal licensing. License is for ONE domain/mall. Within that single mall, it can be used in multiple stores without additional licenses. For Merchant 5.x, but 4.x is available. This version of the module is for Merchant 5.x only. If you are looking for the Power Search for MIVA Merchant 4.14-4.24, it is still available. This module requires that you are using MIVA Engine v5.04 or newer. When you log into admin, you can see which version of the engine is in use in your store. Online overview and initial setup instructions for our MIVA Merchant modules. Searchable field configuration Template editor with version history Customer viewed search screen Token placement on the srch page template Power Search log review in admin screen

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Reviewer: David in Upper Montclair, United States 08/22/2008 Next to Toolkit, Power Search has to be one of the best bargains in Mr. Weiland's bag of tricks. Miva's out of the box search application is so lame, you might as well disable it. Considering a finely tuned application of Power Search can closely approximate what a hosted search solution does for a fraction of the price, you'd be doing your self a disservice if you did not buy Power Search today. Hosted search solutions charge up to $249.95 per month [that's right per month] vs. a one-time change of $33.25 for Power Search. Now I'm by no means a Miva wizard, but look what I've been able to do with it at www.bronsondesignstudio.com

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