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Filters
Filters is a tool designed to make product search easy. Instead of forcing your customers to browse the product catalog by categories, you can create filters that will define specific search criteria and allow users to find products faster. For instance, a Bluetooth filter can view all the phones that have a Bluetooth feature no matter their place or any other parameters. This way customers may filter your product catalog by any specified property at any point of the search process by adding or removing filters.
Note: Filters define search range only within specific categories because attributes are assigned to particular categories and filters are directly mapped to attributes. Sure enough you can create global filters just as global attributes. If you are not familiar with term "attribute", please go to the "Attributes" section.
Create new filter
You can create four types of filters:
- Number type, which can be either a field or a selector
- Text type can be only selector
- and Date type
Examples
We will guide you through several examples and show how to generate filters for your existing attributes. As in examples with attributes in the previous section, we will use cell phones for illustrating Carrier, Battery Capacity and additional Date filter.
Creating Carrier filter
- To create a filter, select a category and click on the "Filters" tab.
- In the Filters page click the "Add new filter" link.
Note: If you see a message "No filterable attributes have been created for this category yet", go to the "Attributes" section to create attributes first.
The Add new filter form appears.
- Associated attribute - select "Carrier" attribute from the list.
- The name of the filter appears automatically, so you can leave it as it is.
- Click Save.
Because carrier attribute already has preset values, filtering rules are generated automatically. Filter appears below with a number indicating total filtering rules.
Created filters instantly appear in the storefront and are available for users to browse your products.
Creating Battery Capacity filter
Complete the following steps to create the battery capacity filter:
- Click the "Add new filter" link (Show me how.)
- Select "Battery Capacity" from the drop-down menu to associate an attribute.
- Because battery capacity attribute doesn't have any values set initially, you have to define ranges that will specify filtering criteria. Let's say that battery capacity might range from 200 to 2000 mAh, therefore, we create rules by providing the following parameters:
- Name - enter the name of the criteria "200 - 500 mAh".
- Range - range defines the filtering scope of the attribute's values. Enter "200" and "500" accordingly.
- Continue in the same manner to create a satisfactory list of intervals.
- Arrangement of filter criteria can be important because it defines how filtering options are displayed in storefront. To change the order, click on the criterion and drag it to the location you want.
- Save when done.
Creating Date filter
To create a date filter, you have to have an attributes that has a "Date" type. To create a date filter:
- Click the "Add new filter" link. (Show me how.)
- Associate date attribute from the attribute list.
- Enter filter name.
- Set filtering rules as follows:
- Enter the name of the period you want to define.
- Date between - click the calendar icon next to the appropriate fields to set the time period.
- You can reorder criteria to set appropriate arrangement. (Show me how.)
- Click the "Save" button to return to filters page.
Reorder filters
The way filters are displayed in your front-end is determined by their arrangement. To change their order:
- Move mouse cursor over the filter. Drag and drop the filter to set the appropriate order.
Edit or delete filters
- In order to edit a filter, hover mouse pointer over the existing filter and click the pen icon.
- If you want to delete a filter, click the delete icon.
Filter's form opens. Depending on the filter type, you can edit most of its properties as in the "Add new filter" section.
