I hope you can help as I am tearing my hair out with this!
I cannot see an option to filter my listings so that I can find a certain listing. When I go to my dashboard and click on “Listings” it only gives the option to look at for sale, out of stock, hidden, expired or draft. There is no option to filter my listings or to type in any part of a listing title to search for it.
I am finding it extremely frustrating having to scroll through several pages of listings to find a particular listing.
Is this functionality non-existent or am I missing something?
I’ve just randomly searched on a phrase I found in one of your listings " pagan halloween have" using the normal Folksy search bar at the top right of every screen and it came up with 25 of your listings.
I do note that you seem to use the same identical title for a lot of your listings which is not at all good for your SEO so maybe if you added the colour to the title and used that as well as some choice words it would help you find what you are looking for.
I always recommend that you add your shop name as a tag so if anyone else had used the same pagan halloween have phrase in their titles it wouid only come up with those in your shop.
I note that when I remove the word ‘have’ from the search it comes up with an addtional 11 listings, not yours but other shop’s witchy things.
If you do that search you will see I have 3 witches, all the same design but different colours so I add that colour (and the witches name and number) to the title to make it unique. It also helps when I get an order in as I can see immediately which I’ve sold.
You can also see that I have got a Joysofglass tag against each of my witches so can ensure only my own witches come up when I search if I add that too.
Thanks for replying but you have misunderstood my query. I am referring to when I am inside my own dashboard and want to find one of my listings to edit it, not when I am searching the Folksy site.
When I click on “Listings” it brings up the entire list and there isn’t a search bar to filter them. For example if I want to find a new job card that I have listed I want a search box so that I can type in “new job” and only those cards will filter through.
It’s extremely frustrating having to scroll through several pages of my entire listings to find that card.
I have not misunderstood you. I am simply explaining to you, as you asked if you were missing something, that yes you were and how you can find your listing, the one you are looking for. Once you Search using the search box and find your listing then you can edit it / them. This search will work for all of your active listings.
Your " 3D Luxury Handmade Card Congratulations on the New Job Typewriter Well Done" comes up when I use the search bar to look for ‘New Job Card’ and as I said, you can persuade the search to limit itself to only your own New Job Cards if you add your shop name as a tag.
Thanks for your reply, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to upset you. I worked out that I can view my shop and go into each of the categories but I didn’t realise that I can edit them from there, I thought that was the public view only.
The other reason I want to be able to filter my listings inside my own dashboard is so that I can use the “Copy” function. For example if I want to list a different design of a new job card I want to be able to find that one card I have listed so that I can use it as the basis of another new job card listing, to save me a lot of time typing out a similar description etc. I see that functionality is not available when I go to a listing using the “view your shop” route.
You didn’t upset me at all I’m just trying to help you
No that functionality isn’t there for copying, there is no way to search within your own shop listing function but as I have lots and lots of listings and have been here a long time I’ve worked out what to do.
I also need to copy listings and they are generally not in the same order in my Listing list as when viewed in my shop as I move things up and down with shopkeeping so… If I want to copy a witch then I use the search bar to find my witches and view one to find the date listed.
I can then work out a bit more quickly than checking the listing titles on each page by checking date listed of the bottom item on each page until I get to the page, listing I want.
Folksy don’t have a feature to search within our own shops or dashboard, so we have to try and find ways to work around it like @JOYSofGLASS has suggested.
PS Note this query about searching within one’s own shop has arisen recently a couple of times on the FB clubhouse and I have advised there the use of the shopname as a tag to get round it.
NB: I have just raised a problem report with Folksy support that the ITEM heading on the listing pages does not seem to properly sort into name sequence. If it did then if I hit the heading twice (to sort in descending not ascending order) my witches would be at the top of my listing pages and my autumn suncatchers all together at the bottom. As it happens my witches are all together, obviously because they are in a coven but my Autumn, like the weather this year, is all over the place.
Sorting on ITEM I would expect to bring things up in alphabetical sequence but that is only going to help you even if it worked which it doesn’t seem to, if the key words you want are at the beginning of your title.
I’m really sorry you’re feeling frustrated! There are so many things we would love to do, but as a really small team we have to prioritise and then work down the list. We have noted that this is something sellers need so it’s on our radar, but we are currently focusing on improving the Reviews system and making sure we are SCA compliant. The way I normally get around this is to go to the listings page and then press ‘cmd F’ (I’m on a Mac) which allows me to search for a word or phrase and all the results matching it will be highlighted. You do have to do it for each page of listings though, so it’s not ideal. We’ll add it to our to-do list though!
