Hi - Unfortunately, we do not have a category tree for Books, DVDs,
Movies, and Music that can be browsed or searched. We would like to
build one out, similar to what we have in all other categories, but
it's a difficult undertaking and isn't something on our short-term
roadmap.

One feature we will look into adding to the APIs is search by author,
title, ISBN for books and search by artist, album, song for Music.

Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks,
Jen

--- In yws-shopping@yahoogroups.com, "duanehardy" <dthardy@...> wrote:
>
> I love the additions to V3 Search. It is a giant step forward.
>
> Can someone tell me if Books, DVDs, Movies, Music have categories
that
> you can browse or search. I know they are covered under departments
> but I can't get any refinements under department elements. So if you
> searched by department "book" and someone didn't know the exact title
> they might have to wad through hundreds of products to find the
> correct book. It would be easier to find if you could return refine
> the search by subcategories, authors, etc.
>
> 1. Are there categories for Books, DVDs, Movies, and Music?
> 2. If not, can you get Departments queries to return refinement data?
>
> Does any one else have this problem. Thanks in advance for your help.
>