WHAT ARE FACETS?

Facets were designed to be ways in which customers can filter your products. These appear on the product search results left-hand side bar. 

How to use Facets for Best Results and Customer Experience

It is generally a good idea to limit the amount of values within your facets. If there are more than a few hundred values, the facet is no longer useful as a filter.

You can also customize which facets are displayed and in what order they appear.

You can learn how to do this by reading this article: Customizing Facets for the Product Search Side Bar

Adding Facets

You can add as many facets as you want in Products > Taxonomy > Facet Options.  The first box is an auto-complete for the facet name; the value can be anything you want.

Merge two Facets

1. delete old facet from product_facet_categories
2. in product_facet_options, if the facet_value does NOT already exist the new facet, change product_facet_id
3. if facet value DOES exist,
   • update product_facet_values and set old product_facet_option_id to new one
   • delete record from product_facet_options
4. update product_facet_values and change product_facet_id from old to new
5. delete old product facet from product_facets

Merge Facet options

1. Update product_facet_values and change old product_facet_option_id to new one
2. delete old value from product_value_options