Configuration search options
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Search OptionsMax Min/Max Steps - The max allowed steps in min/max searches. If your step value will create more steps then this maxium, a new step value will be calculated to stay within the max allowed steps to prevent memory overflow problems. Setting this to 0 will disable this protection As an example, Lets assume you have a price field set to searchable with a min/max search and have a step value of 50000 (50,000) entered. If you have a listing in your database with no price, and one with a price of 1000000 (1,000,000) then the min/max search function will calculate and generate a range of 20 values for both the min and max search boxes for a total of 40 options. This doesn't take much time and won't be noticed. However, if a agent makes a typo while entering a listing, or you configure the step value too low things could get out of hand quickly. For example, say an agent enteres 100000000 (100,000,000) in that same scenario. Open-Realty would now need to calculate and render 2,000 search options for both the min and max search boxes for a total of 4,000 options. This will likely cause a memory overflow on the server, and if not, then would cause the end user to have to wait for 4,000 search options to be downloaded and rendered by their browser. Having the Max Steps option will first calculate how many step values would be calculated in a given scenario and if it is more than the max allowed, will override the settings with a more reasonable amount. Listings Per Page - Number of listings to show on each Search Result Page. Sort Searches By - The field you want your search results sorted by default. Only fields that are set to be displayed on browse are available for selection plus the option to sort randomly. This should be a required field that exist in every class. Sorting by a field that does not have a value or does not exist on a listing or property class can result in Open-Realty not displaying the listing, as the SQL server will not return it. Sort Type - How you want your searches sorted: ASC will sort lowest to highest, DESC will sort highest to lowest. Static Sortby Option - Special Static Sortby option. If this is configured search results will ALWAYS first be sorted by this sortby before the default or user selected sortbys. This is useful primarily if you want to sort Featured Listings first in your search results Static Sortby's Sorttype - If you have a Static Sortby Option selected this is the Sorttype for that Static Sortby option. Show Count in Search Options - Would you like the number of listings shown in the search options? Maximum Search Results - Maximum number of search results any search shall return. 0 = NO LIMIT Search form checkbox list separator - Enter the html or text you want to use to separate each of the checkbox options. Short textarea characters - How many characters to display on the text area short template tag? |
