how to not display product catalog tree

[raynor]

hi.

we have lots of categories in our product catalog.

so when selecting a new product to add to a quote, it causes a lot of scrolling.

is there a way of not showing the product catalog category tree in this popup window, and just letting users use the search fields, such as product type, or product name?

[raynor]

no-one has any idea how to do this?

also how to make the product search automatically use %arg%, instead of making the user enter % % around what they are searching for?

[raynor]

i commented out the table (lines 93-104) that displays the product catalog tree in modules/producttemplates/popup_picker.htm, and that seemed to work.
So at least we don't have to page past the tree any more.

But I really really want to have masked product name search, and also search for status='available'.

i had a go at editing modules/producttemplates/producttemplate.php on line 514, add % to start of search string, similar to the following masking for manufacturer, but it didn't work.

Also tried adding array_push($where_clauses, "status = 'Available'"); around there, but it seems to have no effect.

Is there caching of the php code? Is there something I need to clear?

Is there a more upgrade-friendly way of doing this?