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Also, if the list of facets is taller than the visible portion of the page, the “Submit” button, which is generally placed at the top or bottom of the page, will get pushed out of the viewable screen, thus causing the User to not even see that there is a Submit button at all.
How to filter facets in SAP Commerce accelerator?
SAP Commerce Accelerators support the translation from the product attributes into facets. There are two basic ways of selecting values for filters: Drill-down selection (such as links with the immediate facet form submit). Ajax-like technique where filtering criteria is individually submitted, sequentially, upon each selection.
Can a product be more than one facet?
Your customers may not always be well versed in a product’s technical details. The facets may or may not be the product attributes. At the design phase, one or more product attributes can be converted to one facet.
When to use parallel selection in facet search?
The Parallel Selection approach works well when search is quite slow and a probability of complex selection (many options) is high. For parallel selection, you can face the problem of dependent facets. Some combinations of the facet values would return no results, and you need to mark those in the form somehow.
How to add simple faceted search to your website?
FacetWP is very easy to use. You just need to setup some options from the FacetWP admin screen and add a few shortcodes to a post or page. FacetWP does all the heavy lifting for you automatically, including updating the search results, without refreshing the rest of the page, thanks to the magic of AJAX.
Is there a filter button on facet search?
The user must manually press a “Filter” button after selecting various checkboxes (or setting up sliders etc.). Note, that in the Drill-down selection approach you can’t open all documents published today and marked as “New York” directly from the initial form.
What do you need to know about facet search?
I believe this work covers every aspect of the facet search UI: everything you need to know to create facet search component from scratch or using the ready building blocks from the SAP Commerce Cloud out-of-the-box search module.