The quick search box sits in the Joomla administrator header and searches your whole shop at once: paste an order reference from a support ticket, type a customer’s email, a product name, a SKU or a coupon code, and jump straight to the matching record — no need to open the right list view first.
What it searches
| Group | Matched against | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Orders | Order id, order reference, customer name, customer email, payment transaction id | The order detail page |
| Products | Product id, name, SKU and barcode — including the SKUs and barcodes of every variant | The product edit page |
| Customers | Name, username and email of customers — registered users who have placed an order or saved an address | The customer detail page |
| Discounts | Discount name and coupon code | The discount edit page |
The search is smart about what you type: a number is tried as an id or order reference first, an email address goes straight to the customer email columns, and anything else is matched as free text. Results are grouped by type, each result shows its status (order status, published state, coupon lifecycle), and a “View all” link at the bottom of a full group opens the corresponding list view pre-filtered with your term.
Add-on extensions plug into the same search: install an add-on that supports it and its records appear as an extra result group, with nothing to configure.
Keyboard access
- Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux) or ⌘K (macOS) focuses the search box from anywhere in the administrator.
- / also focuses it, whenever you are not already typing in a field.
- ↑/↓ move through the results, Enter opens the highlighted one, Esc closes the panel (and clears the box on a second press).
Publishing the module
The quick search is the mod_sshop_quicksearch administrator module. On a
fresh install it is published automatically to the header
(the status position of the Atum admin template). If you
updated from an earlier Solidshop release, publish it once
yourself:
- Go to System → Manage → Administrator Modules.
- Open Solidshop - Quick Search.
- Set Status to Published and Position to
status, then save.
The module’s Results Per Group option controls how many matches each group shows (five by default) — more matches are always one click away through the group’s “View all” link.
Quick search respects your Joomla permissions: a user only sees result groups for the areas they are allowed to manage, and users without access to Solidshop never see the box at all.