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- Index all missing prices. Adds to the index only the prices that were not indexed before. Much faster than the next button.
- Re-build Rebuild entire price index. Adds to the index all the prices, whether they were already indexed before or not. Much slower than the previous button when you have many products.
- Build attribute index. Adds to the index all the product attributes.
- Build url index. Adds to the index all the product URLs.
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Layered navigation is based on templates, or group of criteria. By There is one by default, there is none, and therefore your customer will not be able to enjoy it until you have created at least one templatenamed "My template", which makes use of all the available filters. You should create templates more adapted to your content or needs.
You can have as many templates as needed. This section enables you to edit and delete them when necessary.
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- Select categories. You can either create filter for the whole site, or on a per-category basis.
You could for instance have the whole site display the price filter, while some categories can have additional filters.
When choosing "Specific categories", a small window opens where your can choose in which categories this filter should be available.
Note that filters do not automatically apply to sub-categories of the selected category: if there is no product on your "Home" category, then the layered navigation will not appear there. - Selected filters. The number of available filters depends on the content of your shop. Six default filters will appear here: price, weight, condition, manufacturer, available stock and sub-categories. Along with these are the attribute groups for all products in the selected categories (with the number of products). Check a filter's box to move if from the "Available" section to the "Selected" one. You can move the filters up and down with your mouse cursor, which will influence their display in the front-page.
Each filter has a two drop-down menu included:- Type of display. You can choose how the filter is displayed to the customer. The visualization depends on the type of the filter.
- Numerical (price & weight): check-box, radio button, drop-down list. Note that only the check-box setting allows for multiple selection.
- Alphabetical (all others): slider, inputs area, list of values.
- Limit. If some of your categories have too many choices for a given filters, you can limit the number of items using this selector.
- Type of display. You can choose how the filter is displayed to the customer. The visualization depends on the type of the filter.
- Name your template. Customers will not see the name, but it will prove very useful to you when you have to edit one template among the dozen or hundred you may create in the lifespan of your shop.
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- Hide filter values with no product is matching. If disabled, you will still see filters, even if they are useless because of the lack of matching product (which can make the layered navigation over-crowded with options).
- Show the number of matching products. Displays the number after the name of the filter, between brackets. If there is no matching product, it will display "(0)".
- Show products from subcategories.
- Category filter depth (0 for no limits, 1 by default).
- Use tax to filter price.
- Allow indexing robots (google, yahoo, bing, ...) to use condition filter.
- Allow indexing robots (google, yahoo, bing, ...) to use availability filter.
- Allow indexing robots (google, yahoo, bing, ...) to use manufacturer filter.
These options apply to all templates and filters.
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