Facets when no products in CTGY

[jsdva]

I am currently wrangling with facets. Getting facets to display on the SRCH, CGTY and PLST is a piece of cake, but now what I want to do:

If a parent category has a subcategory listing, but no products listed/assigned to that parent category, I want the category tree to display, and not the facets. I only want facets to display if there are products listed/assigned to that category. Sorry if this is boggled...that's where my mind is at. This is my latest attempt:

<mvt:if expr="'|'$toupper(g.screen)$'|' IN '|SRCH|PLST|CTGY|' AND 'l.settings:product_count GT 0'">
    <mvt:item name="facets" />
<mvt:else>
    <mvt:item name="category_tree" />
</mvt:if>

But I get nothing listed. No category tree/no facets on categories with no products.

What am I doing wrong? Tried several different ways to do this and am not getting there.

Jamie

[Brennan]

Facets should only be displaying if there are products assigned to that category. Are you trying to get the global facet template elements not to display if there are not products?

[jsdva]

Facets should only be displaying if there are products assigned to that category. Are you trying to get the global facet template elements not to display if there are not products?

Well, I want the facets to display on the CTGY page, but if there are no products assigned to that category, then I want the category tree to display instead. On the other hand, if there are products assigned to the category, I want the facets to display. Hope I am making sense here. Done a lot of head banging.

Jamie

[jsdva]

Brennan: You said that Facets should only be displaying if there are products assigned to that category.

Well, the category has no products assigned to it, and the facets still display. I have a Levels theme that has the category tree under User Interface >> Settings, so I had to use an if/else. So, I couldn't just replace the category tree mvt:item with the facets mvt:item on the page template as the instructions state under Template Changes. Hope this makes it easier to figure out. Would really like this to work, and I sure don't want to have to mess with all the theme's page templates and Settings just to do it.

Jamie

[Miss Kate]

Facets aren't showing on my development website at all. When I read the resource info on facets to see what the heck they are, couldn't figure it out. I get a message when I click on facets to add 2 or more modules. I don't know what modules it is asking for as I have every possible module installed.

[jsdva]

Not sure of how much this will help you, Miss Kate, since I'm still trying to sort out my own mess, but to just insert the standard facets on some themes (like levels), you'll have to find the category tree in the User Interface >> Settings >> Global Footer, and insert this in its place:

<code>
<mvt:if expr="'|'$toupper(g.screen)$'|' IN '|CTGY|SRCH|PLST'">
<mvt:item name="facets" />
<mvt:else>
<mvt:item name="category_tree" />
</mvt:if>
</code>

However, if you have the category tree within the page template (as is on some themes), then you just replace the mvt:item for category tree with the facets item.

And, on each of the screens, CTGY, SRCH, PLST, make sure you add the mvt:item for facets.

As far as modules, I would think all you needed was that one module (Utilities >> Add/Remove Modules >> Standard Facets module.

Jamie

[Miss Kate]

What is a facet? The Standard Facets module is installed but I don't know what it is used for.

[jsdva]

Facets allow a customer to sort by price, category, attributes, ect, and other as applied by custom fields. For an example view the elements theme facets.

Or, insert the term product in the search bar of the elements demo, and it will give you the search page with facets

Jamie

[jsdva]

Okay, I am going to re-revisit this to [hopefully] give it a bump, in hopes of getting an answer.

So, "Facets should only be displaying if there are products assigned to that category." I get this.

But, I want categories that have only subcats and no products in them to display the category tree. If the categories have products assigned to them, they should display the facets. So, why is my if/else not doing this?

 <mvt:if expr="'|'$toupper(g.screen)$'|' IN '|SRCH|PLST|CTGY|' AND 'l.settings:product_count GT 0'">    
    <mvt:item name="facets" />
<mvt:else>    
    <mvt:item name="category_tree" />
</mvt:if>

Clearly I am not doing something right.

Anyone??

Jamie

[Matt Zimmermann]

Hi Jamie,

If I am not mistaken, each of those pages has a separate product count variable. For instance, CTGY uses l.settings:category_product_count and SRCH uses l.settings:search_product_count.

[jsdva]

Hi Jamie,
If I am not mistaken, each of those pages has a separate product count variable. For instance, CTGY uses l.settings:category_product_count and SRCH uses l.settings:search_product_count.

Well, duh me and bless you Matt!! I believe I've got it now thanks to your help!

This seems to do what I want (In case others need it):

<mvt:if expr="(l.settings:page:code EQ 'CTGY' AND l.settings:category_product_count GT 0) OR (l.settings:page:code EQ 'SRCH' AND l.settings:search_product_count GT 0) OR (l.settings:page:code EQ 'PLST')">
    <mvt:item name="facets" />
<mvt:else>
    <mvt:item name="category_tree" />
</mvt:if>

Jamie

[eldon99]

jsdva , thank you for sharing that code. I am wondering about taking this a step further. I am wanting to display on the category page the category tree as facets with the product count instead of like a normal tree. I would also like to display just the child categories, not the entire tree.

[jsdva]

jsdva , thank you for sharing that code. I am wondering about taking this a step further. I am wanting to display on the category page the category tree as facets with the product count instead of like a normal tree. I would also like to display just the child categories, not the entire tree.

Thank you eldon99! I think it is great when others post their fixes, so I try to do that whenever I can.

I know you can set the Facets as to how they appear category specific with category facet rules. I have not done this personally, but the docs do touch on it. https://docs.miva.com/how-to-guides/facets-category-search-filtering

[lesliekirk]

Facets should only be displaying if there are products assigned to that category. Are you trying to get the global facet template elements not to display if there are not products?

What do you do if the facets are displaying and there are no products assigned to that category? I looked at docs Jamie references before I came looking for a post that touches on the issue I'm having. When I tried editing the filter at the Category level, it affected it on every other page.

Shouldn't this expression prevent the filters from displaying?

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:facets:facet_count GT 0 OR l.settings:category_listing:products_on_page_count GT 1 OR l.settings:all_products:products_on_page_count GT 1 OR l.settings:search_results:products_on_page_count GT 1">

[Matt Zimmermann]

Hi Leslie,

Do you have a link to a page with this issue?