If you want to make it easier for your customers to search for a product, use faceted search. It is a filter function that allows you to add more and more value in order to narrow down the range of products. Filters can be freely combined with each other to increasingly reduce the number of displayed proposals. Thanks to facet filtering, the customer can search for a product of a given colour, in a specific price range, made of a selected raw material. This filtering works on the basis of attributes and features that have been moved in the entry:
PrestaShop 1.7 - Adding a product with combinations
To start faceted navigation in PrestaShop version 1.7, select the Modules section in the left-hand menu in the administration panel and then the Modules Manager.
In the Modules tab, you are interested in the Faceted Search module. After searching for the module, select configure to start the configuration.
In order for the module to work properly, it is necessary to have up-to-date product data. So you should index the latest products, product attributes and their prices. Depending on the scope of activities, select the option index all missing prices, rebuild entire price index or build attribute and features index.
The first tab index all missing prices adds only prices that have never been indexed before.
The second one rebuild the entire price index creates a new index with all prices, regardless of their indexing history.
The third build attribute index is to add all product attributes to the index.
Remember that indexation is necessary after each change of any given product. Each change can be indexed manually or by using a cron server using the URL link generated in the module.
The next step is to use filter templates. If you have already defined templates it is time to use them. Otherwise you have to define a new template by clicking +add new template.
On the new configuration page, name the filter you are creating and select the categories for which the filter should appear on the store's page. By moving the slider between the checkboxes yes and no you can decide which filter categories will be available on your store's website. For most of the created filters you can assign a display style: a checkbox, a drop-down list or an option button.
The configuration section allows you to define additional settings for the Faceted Search module.
Thanks to the correct setting of filters, a table with filters to choose from will appear on the left side of the store website.
Additionally, there will be an option of sorting by e.g. by name, price.
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