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searching by attributes
I built a custom "search by attribute" for the cart I'm porting to Zen, it allows visitors to specify any of dozens of criteria and it will display a list of products that meet all of those criteria. As a seller of ground cover plants an example query would be "show me the plants that grow in full sun in zone 7 that are evergreen, grow fast in poor soil on slopes, have red blooms and are drought resistant".
You can see a subset of the major criteria on the top-left "plant search" box of http://classygroundcovers.com, the full set of search criteria can be seen at http://classygroundcovers.com/page----search
I did this by creating categories for each attribute and including each item in appropriate categories, then searching for items that were in all requested categories.
I think that a generic "search by attribute" option would be useful to many but did not find mention of any.
I would appreciate opinions about the best way to port this functionality.
