advanced search with configurable product in Magento

Question

Hi,

I have a clothing e-commerce website. I created color and size attributes and used them with configurable products. The configurable products have at least two associated products and those associated products have color and size options.

When I use advanced search to search items with a specified size attribute, nothing shows up on the result page. I guess it is because associated products' visibility is set to "Nowhere".

How do fix this?

Answer 1

Configurable products should be indexed with the attributes of their associated products, regardless of the visibility of those products.

I'd suggest checking that the configurable products don't have visibility set to include them in search results. Also, refreshing the search index may fix the problem.