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Search Results Grid Different From Product Grid Listing

katiek648 Total Posts: 30 Joined: 2008-04-10 Ignore user	Can someone help me out here? I customized the product listing grid here: /template/catelog/product/list.pthml Instead of showing the description, I am showing the ShortDescription so I modified the code to look like this: `<img src="/skin/frontend/default/default/images/product-divider.gif"> <?php echo nl2br($_product->getShortDescription()) ?> <a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>"><span class="learnMore"><?php echo $this->__('Learn More') ?></span></a>` It looks great on the homepage (http://shop.ode1.deasil.com/), but when I search for something, the Short Description doesn’t show up. As far as I can tell, it is pulling from the same page (/template/catelog/product/list.pthml). http://shop.ode1.deasil.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=oil&x;=0&y;=0 Can anyone explain to me why the ShortDescription is not showing up in my search results? Thanks, Katie
	Posted: May 10 2008 \| top

ralphie Total Posts: 43 Joined: 2007-12-20 London Ignore user	good questions.. have the same issue..
	Posted: May 13 2008 \| top \| # 1

dan_w Total Posts: 199 Joined: 2008-01-04 Ignore user	From what I can see, it doesn’t look like the Result.php block loads the short description in the _getProductCollection function. The getShortDescription will work, but you just need to tell the block to load that info so that you can call it. Open up app->core->Mage->CatalogSearch->Block->Result.php. You should see the following function: protected function _getProductCollection() { if (is_null($this->_productCollection)) { $this->_productCollection = $this->_getQuery()->getResultCollection() ->addAttributeToSelect('url_key') ->addAttributeToSelect('name') ->addAttributeToSelect('price') ->addAttributeToSelect('special_price') ->addAttributeToSelect('special_from_date') ->addAttributeToSelect('special_to_date') ->addAttributeToSelect('description') ->addAttributeToSelect('image') ->addAttributeToSelect('small_image') ->addAttributeToSelect('tax_class_id'); Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($this->_productCollection); Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->addVisibleInSearchFilterToCollection($this->_productCollection); } return $this->_productCollection; } As you can see, the short_description is not part of the select query. You can change ->addAttributeToSelect(’description’) to ->addAttributeToSelect(’short_description’), or you can add ->addAttributeTo Select(’short_description’) entirely. Of course, proper conventions would say that you should ammend the function via the local code pool as to preserve the integrity of your changes across future upgrades, but this’ll give you an idea as to how to get the short_description to show up. Hope that helps. Dan
	Posted: May 13 2008 \| top \| # 2

ralphie Total Posts: 43 Joined: 2007-12-20 London Ignore user	hi dan thanks for that, nice one. i guess i will change this function then. however hope that in the future this field will be added in the core, don’t see a point why not? cheers, ralph
	Posted: May 14 2008 \| top \| # 3

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