Setup Wizard - Field Faceting
Faceting
This step in the setup wizard allows you to fine tune your facets for faceted navigation.
Order
Determines the order in which facets will appear in facet navigation.
Sort
Determines the ordering of individual options in a facet. You can choose to order facet options alphabetically, or by the number of items that match that facet (count).
Limit
Limits the number of options that will appear for the facet. For example, you might want to show all shoe sizes, but you're not going to want to show all 100 categories.
Collapsed
In order to conserve screen space you can choose to collapse some facets by default. This is useful when you have several different facets available to customers, but only want to show some prominent ones by default.
Multiple
Determines how to handle customers selecting multiple facet options.
| Option | Functionality |
|---|---|
| Select One | Only allow customers to search one option per facet. |
| Select Multiple - AND | When a user selects more than one option within a facet it looks for items that match both options. For example, in our shoe store we might have multiple categories for shoes, such as "durable" and "stylish", if a user selected both options they would see items that were both "durable" and "stylish". |
| Select Multiple - OR | When a user selects more than one option within a facet it looks for items that match either option. Now, in our example above, if a user selected both options they would now see items that were either "durable" or "stylish". |
Widget Type
For your facets SearchSpring offers a few different UI options.
List
The list widget type is just a simple list of links that a user can select from.
Grid
The grid widget type is another group of links, but layed out in a grid. This is useful when you have several short options, like clothing or shoe sizes.
Palette
The palette widget type is very similar to the grid widget type in display, but the content of the grid boxes are colors. The color values of your data feed need to be CSS colors or hex colors. This widget type is useful when selecting colors.
Slider
The slider widget type allows a user to select a range of values, this is specifically useful when selecting prices in faceting.
After you select a slider widget type, a small icon will appear next to the drop down. Click on this icon to select other slider based options such as the format. For example, if your slider is handling money select the money format ($25.35 - $48.50).
Facet Ranges
For numeric (decimal or whole numbers), you can setup facet ranges to display in the list widget type. For example, if you were setting up a facet range for a price you could do something like:
[* TO 10]=Less than $10
[10 TO 20]=$10 to $20
[20 TO 40]=$20 to $40
[40 TO 60]=$40 to $60
[60 TO 80]=$60 to $80
[80 TO 100]=$80 to $100
[100 TO 150]=$100 to $150
[150 TO *]=More than $150