Attribute configuration
Each product attribute can be configured to be used in Search and/or Catalog Layered Navigation.
On the attribute edition page in Magento back-office (Store > Attributes > Product), following parameters can be modified on the Storefront Properties tab :
| Parameter | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Use in Search | No | If the attribute is used for product search. Eg : Setting it to "Yes" for the "Color" attribute allows to obtain result when searching on "blue hoodie" or "red jacket". |
| Search Weight | 1 | The weight of this attribute in search. |
| Used in spellcheck | No | When set to "Yes", the engine will compute spellchecking (see Spellchecking) on this attribute values. |
| Used in autocomplete | No | When set to "Yes", the engine will search only on this attributes values when building autocomplete results. This feature is not implemented yet and will be soon.. |
| Display in autocomplete | No | When set to "Yes", values of this attributes will be shown in autocomplete results. This feature is not implemented yet and will be soon. |
| Visible in Advanced Search | No | Actually has no effect since the advanced search is not implemented yet. |
Each product attribute can also be configured when it is used as a facet in the search results and/or category view page.
On the attribute edition page in Magento back-office, following parameters can be modified :
| Parameter | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Use in Layered Navigation | No | Set this to "Filterable (with results)" to display this attribute as a search filter (facet) on the Catalog Navigation pages. |
| Use in Search Results Layered Navigation | No | Set this to "Yes" to display this attribute as a search filter (facet) on the Search Result pages. |
| Facet coverage rate | 90 | The minimum coverage rates of results by this attribute. Example, if set to 90% on the "Brand" attribute, the facet will be displayed only if 90% of the products in the search results or category have a brand. |
| Facet max. size | 10 | The maximum number of values that will be displayed for this facet. |
| Facet sort order | Result count | This is how the facet values will be ordered.
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