Filters Configuration

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The ability to filter search results is crucial for eCommerce sites because it helps users locate products more efficiently, leading to an improved user experience and potentially increasing sales by assisting customers in finding what they are looking for quickly and easily.

The Filters functionality is used to narrow down search results based on the fields of your data feed. These filters can include attributes like price, product category, brand, size, color, and various other product-specific characteristics.

Filter types

There are several types of filters:

• Visual filter: Displays colors or images in a grid or list format.

• Frame filter: Displays info in labels, such as size, gender, etc.

• Range filter: Displays as numeric range sliders. Represented by a small range selector. Note that only numeric fields will be displayed as range sliders.

• Terms filter: Displays info as a list of terms or categories.

After configuration, filters will automatically appear in your Doofinder Layer automatically. To ensure they work correctly, index your data feed before configuring your filters.

How to Configure Filters

1. In your Admin Panel go to Search > Layer Settings > Filters > Select the Search Engine where you want to create your filters from the SE dropdown menu in the top bar. To add a new filter, click on the "Add Filter" button and a pop-up box will appear.

   You can only add up to ten fields in the Filters. This will help maintain the speed of the search function.

   
2. Next, click on the dropdown menu and select the field you want to apply as a filter. You will find the available fields that Doofinder obtained from your data feed. For example: categories, brand and best_price. For the purposes of this exercise, we will choose "brand".



3. Now, write a Custom name for your filter, such us: "Brand" (this is the name that will be displayed on your Layer, so you can write what you want to be visible to your customers). To show the filter in the Doofinder Layer, enable the "visible" checkbox at the top.

In addition, you can arrange the number of "Terms" you want to display to customize the appearance of the filters by changing the default numbers.

• Minimum: Number of terms that will be shown initially. Minimum terms is 3.
• Maximum: Number of terms that will be shown when click on "see more". Maximum terms is 50.
• Hide all terms by default: To show the terms of the filter hidden by default.

4. Once you are done, hit the "Save" button. This is what your Filters panel will look like when you have created your filters:

• To remove a filter, simply click on the trash icon located on the right-hand side.

• If you want to use the same filters in other Search Engines, click in the "Copy Settings to..." dropdown menu, beside the "Add filter" button > select the Search Engines in which you want your filters copied, and click on "Apply". The filters will automatically appear in the Search Engine.

Create a Frame Filter

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The appearance of this filter is oriented to be used with size fields, but it also applies to many other fields, such as ram memory, screen inches, storage, watts, wheel diameter, and much more.

It is very easy to configure. When creating or editing a filter, you can customize its appearance by choosing the Frame option. In addition, you will be able to sort the values and give a custom name to each of them:

Create an Image Filter

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You can use an image as a filter to make its appearance more appealing. Take a look at these brands example:

To select this option, when creating or editing the filter, choose visual on "Filter appearance" and Image on "Customize the visual appearance on the layer":

Then, you need to upload the images you wish to display in your Filter section.

This type of appearance can be used with more than the brand field. Take a look at these possibilities:

• Grid layout by dress shape:

• List layout by fabric type:

Create a Color Filter

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Another way to enhance the appearance of filters is to use colors instead of plain text. Take a look at this example:

To configure the color filter, add the filter and choose color from the dropdown menu. Then complete the fields according to your needs. For example, type a filter custom name, let's say "Color". Then select the appearance, such as visual, and more options will be displayed for you to customize your filter.

Select between the options on Type, Layout and Content.

• Type: Color / Image

• Layout: Grid / List

• Content: With labels / Without labels

Each value in the selected field's feed can be assigned a custom name, enabling text translation if the original feed is in English. Additionally, you can define an HTML color code for each value. Common colors (e.g.: white, black, gray, blue, red) already have predefined generic assignments.

Group Filter by Color Code

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You can group values from the feed to show them under the same color in your filter. Let's say you have a product in a range of beige in your store, and you don't want your color filter to show "light beige, medium beige, dark beige, etc." You can group in your filter all those beige colors into one and still show the range in the results. Take a look at this example:

How to Group Colors

Go to Search > Layer Settings > Filters > select a Search Engine > click on Add Filter if you are creating it for the first time, or click on the existing color filter to edit it.

1. Enter the same HTML color code for the values you want to group.
2. We recommend writing the same custom name for all terms grouped under the same color. Otherwise, the Layer will display the first of them. If no custom name exists, the Layer will show the default value of the feed.
3. Save the changes.

Best_price Filtering Field

In the data feed, you have the option to provide both a regular price and a sale price. However, when it comes to filtering the results, you typically want to filter by the final price, which could be either the regular price or the sale price. To facilitate this, Doofinder mandates consolidating the price information into a single field, which is why the 'best_price' field serves this purpose.