How to use Layered Navigation

[Wai]

Hello All,

Could someone give me some pointers in locating and using the layered navigation feature.
I've enabled the associated code in specialpurpose/ecommerce/widget/CatalogScreens.xml and I'm not seeing anything different with viewing the gizmo and widget categories, in ecommerce component, as compared to when layered navigation was disabled.

https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBIZ/main-new-features-in-2009.html tells me,

"...One of the biggest featured introduced in Ecommerce and which was "Layered Navigation of Categories." Layered navigation in an Ecommerce application allows the user to filter the product listing based on categories, features and price ranges. The user can apply multiple filters to the given product listing. He can narrow or expand his search and try different filter combinations so as to find the desired product...."

Where do I find this filter?  How/where do I go about creating multiple filters?

tia
Wai

[Pierre Smits]

Hello Wai,

You might be looking at some other code (definitely so when you have
downloaded the trunk recently) than the document in the url you provided is
referring to.

Please have a look at all improvements by looking at:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Main+New+Features

which states all improvements since version 04.

Regards,

Pierre

2012/1/31 Wai <[hidden email]>

> Hello All,
>
> Could someone give me some pointers in locating and using the layered
> navigation feature.
> I've enabled the associated code in
> specialpurpose/ecommerce/widget/CatalogScreens.xml and I'm not seeing
> anything different with viewing the gizmo and widget categories, in
> ecommerce component, as compared to when layered navigation was disabled.
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBIZ/main-new-features-in-2009.html tells me,
>
> "...One of the biggest featured introduced in Ecommerce and which was
> "Layered Navigation of Categories." Layered navigation in an Ecommerce
> application allows the user to filter the product listing based on
> categories, features and price ranges. The user can apply multiple filters
> to the given product listing. He can narrow or expand his search and try
> different filter combinations so as to find the desired product...."
>
> Where do I find this filter?  How/where do I go about creating multiple
> filters?
>
> tia
> Wai
>
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>

[Robert Gan]

really interested as well. When I activate that future I get the error:

org.ofbiz.widget.screen.ScreenRenderException: Error rendering screen [component://ecommerce/widget/CatalogScreens.xml#category]: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error running script at location [component://ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/WEB-INF/actions/catalog/LayeredNavigation.groovy]: javax.script.ScriptException: org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
Script162.groovy: 63: unable to resolve class GenericValue
@ line 63, column 9.
for (GenericValue categoryRollup : productCategoryRollups) {
^

1 error
(Error running script at location [component://ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce/WEB-INF/actions/catalog/LayeredNavigation.groovy]: javax.script.ScriptException: org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
Script162.groovy: 63: unable to resolve class GenericValue
@ line 63, column 9.
for (GenericValue categoryRollup : productCategoryRollups) {
^

1 error
)

[Robert Gan]

Wai wrote

Hello All,

Could someone give me some pointers in locating and using the layered navigation feature.
I've enabled the associated code in specialpurpose/ecommerce/widget/CatalogScreens.xml and I'm not seeing anything different with viewing the gizmo and widget categories, in ecommerce component, as compared to when layered navigation was disabled.

https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBIZ/main-new-features-in-2009.html tells me,

"...One of the biggest featured introduced in Ecommerce and which was "Layered Navigation of Categories." Layered navigation in an Ecommerce application allows the user to filter the product listing based on categories, features and price ranges. The user can apply multiple filters to the given product listing. He can narrow or expand his search and try different filter combinations so as to find the desired product...."

Where do I find this filter?  How/where do I go about creating multiple filters?

tia
Wai

Ok I got a step on it, cause it could not resolve the GenericValue class I just deleted the call in:
LayeredNavigation.groovy

  if (productCategoryRollups) {
        for (GenericValue categoryRollup : productCategoryRollups) {
            categoryConstraint = new ProductSearch.CategoryConstraint(categoryRollup.parentProductCategoryId, true, false);
            if (searchConstraintList.contains(categoryConstraint)) {
                previousCategoryId = categoryRollup.parentProductCategoryId;
                context.previousCategoryId = previousCategoryId;
            }
        }
    }

without it, it works, so for what is that part?

[Robert Gan]

And I also have the question, if there is a GUI to configure the layered Navigation / Product filter.

I think I have to do it with the application/ecommerce files, cause the Price ranges (min, max prices), color and categorie filter are implemented there (hardcoded), so i think there is no GUI, right?

Kindly

Robert2012 wrote

Layered Navigation

[Jacques Le Roux]

I don't know much about it, all I know is there
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3186
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3839

Jacques

From: "Robert2012" <[hidden email]>

> And I also have the question, if there is a GUI to configure the layered
> Navigation / Product filter.
>
> I think I have to do it with the application/ecommerce files, cause the
> Price ranges (min, max prices), color and categorie filter are implemented
> there (hardcoded), so i think there is no GUI, right?
>
> Kindly
>
>
>
> Robert2012 wrote
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>> Layered Navigation
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>
>
>
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> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/How-to-use-Layered-Navigation-tp4343036p4542822.html
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[Robert Gan]

thanks, that was what I allready found. So It seems that this future is just to be coded. But nothing difficult. Thanks.