Improve current search capability

Greetings,
I have built admin pages using data bridge and included search functionality on the products results page.

I would like to include some functionality to the search form to improve the user experience. The form currently has four search fields, namely: bicycle brand, bicycle category, bicycle subcategory and bicycle name options.

I would like to apply some form of filtering as follows. Should the user select a specific bicycle brand, then the remainder of the search fields should list only the relevant records and specific records.

I have no idea how to accomplish this and would appreciate a step-by-step process and workflow how to achieve this functionality.

Find attached the search page.

Much appreciated and thanks in advance.

Best regards
Frank

the brand, category, and subcategory tables would need to have some way of relating to each other.


you could then use Dynamic Dropdowns which is a part of Data Bridge to filter the other select lists on the page based on the selected brand.

how are your tables defined?

How are you relating a specific brand to a category? or subcategory?

Hi Jason
I have three tables as follows:

kpc_brand
id
name
image
description

kpc_category
catID
brandID
catName

kpc_sub_category
subCatID
parentBrandID
parentCatID
subCatName

Can I use the generated search page or would I need to create a new search page to achieve this functionality.

How would I invoke the dynamic dropdowns in data bridge and what would be the process to achieve the results I desire?

Are there any tutorials that I can familiarise my self with?

Thank you

create 3 recordsets:


rsBrands:
SELECT id, name FROM kpc_brand

rsCategories:
SELECT catID, brandID, catName FROM kpc_category

rsSubCategories:
SELECT subCatID, parentBrandID, subCatName FROM

set the Brands select list to be dynamic, and to use the id column for the value, and the name column for the label.

in the server behaviors panel, click the plus button, and select WebAssist -> Dynamic Drop Downs -> Create Dynamic Array.

for the recordset, selct rsCategories. Set the parent ID to the brandID column, the Child ID to the catID column and the Child Name to the catName column.

repeat this again, this time select the rsSubCategories recordset. set the parent ID to the parentBrandID column, child id to the subCatID column and child name to the subCatName column.


in design view, select the brand list. In the behaviors panel (note: not server behaviors) click the plus button and select WebAssist -> WA Dynamic Dropdowns -> Populate list from array. Select the rsCategories array. for the parent list, selct the brands list, and the child list, select the categories list.

repeat this step and this time use the rsSubCategories array, and set the child list to the sub categories select list.


NOTE: your original search page passed the brand, category and subcategory names. this new search page will p[ass the ID's instead. Your results page will need to be changed to make use of the ID values instead of relying on the names.

Thank you Jason,

Your detailed step-by-step process will certainly put me in the right direction to move forward. Highly appreciated.

Just to clarify and make sure I understand correctly. I will first make backups of my current search and results pages. I presume then that on the existing search page I will follow and implement your process.

Is this correct?

I will provide feedback on the outcome of the implementation.

Best regards
Frank

yes, that is correct.

I've created the three recordset's and for rsBands I also selected name as I needed this column for the label.

The search page is working fine when I click on a brand, it only displays the relevant categories. However, the subcategories displays all records for that specific brand and not the subcategory records based on the category selected.

Is it possible after the brand has been selected as well as the selected category that these subcategories displayed will only be related to the category selected?

Will this new search form be updated automatically on the results page?


With reference to the results page changes, should I substitute ['Name'] with ['id'] for the brand name option values; and ['CatName'] with ['CatID'] for the category name option values; and ['SCatName'] with ['SubCatID'] for the sub-category name option values?

Should I also change in the bicycles results section change as follows:
FROM
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><?php echo($row_WADAkpc_bicycles['BicycleBrandName']); ?></td>
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><?php echo($row_WADAkpc_bicycles['BicycleCatName']); ?></td>
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><?php echo($row_WADAkpc_bicycles['BicycleSubCatName']); ?></td>

TO
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><?php echo($row_WADAkpc_bicycles['BicycleBrandID']); ?></td>
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><?php echo($row_WADAkpc_bicycles['BicycleCatID']); ?></td>
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><?php echo($row_WADAkpc_bicycles['BicycleSubCatID']); ?></td>

Appreciate your help Jason

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