Extending the Store Search for Sku
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The search option which appears in the top border of the customer side allows for a search by name keyword. You can enhance this search to support Sku as well.
I know you can search by name, description or sku in the advanced search, but that's an extra click for the customer to go to this
Edit the ConLib/SearchPage.ascx.cs and locate the following line of code
ProductList.DataSource = ProductDataSource.NarrowSearch(_Keywords, this.CategoryId, _ManufacturerId, 0, 0, _PageSize, (_HiddenPageIndex * _PageSize), SortResults.SelectedValue);
and replace it with the following lines of code
int startIndex = (_HiddenPageIndex * _PageSize); if(startIndex == (-1*_PageSize)) startIndex = 0; ProductList.DataSource = ProductDataSource.AdvancedSearch(_Keywords, this.CategoryId, _ManufacturerId, true, true, true, 0, 0, _PageSize, startIndex, SortResults.SelectedValue);