link"Search motivation" documentation

The add-on improves a behavioural factor in the shop, by the hint to the user of the correct search expressions in the form of placeholder in a search block which are shown with the effect of typing and draw the user attention to a search block. Thus, you have an opportunity:

• informing;
• advertising;
• motivations to search actions.

Non-standard search hints can motivate the user to enter those expressions which are favorable to the owner of shop into search. Also, the add-on offers high management flexibility of different search hints display on different shop pages (hints can be established at the level of categories pages or the general by default for display on all shop pages are set):

1. There is an opportunity to set the general search phrases in settings of the add-on (these phrases will be shown on all shop pages);
2. There is an opportunity to specify search expressions for category (then they will be shown on this category page, its child categories, and products which belong to it).

Add-on is compatible with the following Themes:

• YoupiTheme (compatible with correspond CS-Cart version);
• UniTheme2 (compatible with correspond CS-Cart version);
• Responsive.

General technical support conditions are available at this link (be sure to review these conditions, all solutions from the AlexBranding development team come with limited technical support).

In order to use our technical support, you need to:

1. Log in with your order owner account on https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com;
2. Go to the page My Account → Orders;
3. Find the corresponding order with the problem add-on in the orders list and pass to its details;
4. Find the “Support” link next to the corresponding add-on name (near you can find Documentation link also) and click on it;
5. Fill in the data with the problem, provide access to your CS-Cart installation (path to the administration panel, admin mail, admin password + FTP access) and create a ticket (after you will create the ticket, you will receive an e-mail and a special code to track the ticket in the future);
6. Wait for the specialist answer in accordance with the regulations of the technical support service and the priority of your ticket.

If you didn't receive an answer within the deadlines, according to the chosen ticket priority, send e-mail info@alexbranding.com with the ticket number, for which you did not receive an answer in time, and the team manager will solve the problem in compliance with regulations.

You can test the addon work with admin access using our demo server Demos for CS-Cart solutions from Alexbranding by choosing it in Addons list or just follow the link.

We recommend to note general restrictions:

1. All solutions from AlexBranding developers team require pre-installation of the AB: Addons Manager service addon. It is delivered free of charge and is responsible for such services: installation, upgrades, license verifications. Excluding this service addon usage is not possible;
2. Addon files may have a closed (encoded) part, in which only a license check is located;
3. The addon will work only on those domains, that are specified in the user's license. If you try to use the solution on CS-Cart installations, whose domains are not included in the license, the addon will be automatically turned off;
4. Local installation is not possible, so that the addon works on the additional domain (subdomain), enter this domain (subdomain) in the Domain field, when ordering (or write to info@alexbranding.com) - adding technical domains for the developing or for testing is always free.

After your order has been processed by our manager, it will be transferred to Completed state, you will receive an email to your mailbox with ordered add-ons license numbers (usually it takes from 15 minutes to 8 hours depending on the day time and week day).

Then follow the steps below, which differs depending on your version of the CS-Cart platform:

You can also install the add-on with a standard installation for CS-Cart. To do this, download the appropriate archive with an add-on version compatible with your version of the CS-Cart platform.
Go to the website cs-cart.alexbranding.com, log in under the account of the order holder and go to the page My Profile → Orders → Relevant Order, go to details and you will see a list of available archives for the ordered add-on. Download the version (archive) you need and make the installation (standard for CS-Cart installation: Add-ons → Downloaded add-ons and in the gearwheel menu select Manual installation).

For access to the add-on settings go to the page Administration panel → Add-ons → Downloaded add-ons and in the list click the add-on name, the pull-down window with its settings will be opened.

For access to the add-on settings you should go to the page Administration panel → Add-ons → Manage add-ons and at the add-on name in the gearwheel menu select appropriate menu item.

From the add-on version v1.9.0 added the ability to create your own character set for “misprints” in the search expressions. After add-on installation “misprints” will be automatically set for English and Russian languages. If you wish to set your own language, go to the page Administration panel → Administration → Languages → Translations. Find language variable: ab__sm.random_char, select the necessary language and in the Value field set alphabetic letters and save the changes on the page. If the mentioned language variable does not exist, create it, clicking on the button [+] Add language variable and follow the steps above.