How to Use Product Features
Some products have a LOT of feature metadata. Sure, it's valuable information in some scenarios, but it might not make sense to display all of it on a specific page. For instance, a feature may be great to show shoppers in Product Compare, but it's not something you want cluttering up the Filter on your product list pages.
You can select to display a feature:
- As a way to filter search results - When the Product List Feature Filter Widget is added to the Product List template, the product search results page will include a features filter, displaying the list of features and values tagged to products found. By applying one or more filters, a shopper can zero in on the most suitable products quickly and easily.
- In Technical Specifications on the Product Detail page as helpful product information:
In the past, product feature data have always been integrated from the ERP. You can now maintain features in the CMS.
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Commerce Vision recommends that applying Product Features to products be done on all products at once rather than in stages. This will minimise exclusion of products without features from searches. |
Prerequisites
In order to maintain product features online, here's what needs to be configured:
Enable Product Features
To enable Product Features:
- In the CMS, go to Settings → → Settings → Feature Management → Products & Categories → Product Features.
- Toggle ON Product Features.
- Once enabled, Product Features appears on the Products & Categories menu.
Create Feature Groups (optional)
This allows the grouping two or more features for display on the Product Comparison page.
Example: 'Origin' was created as a group to include the 'Country of Origin' and 'Australian State' features.
To create a group:
- Go to Settings → → Settings → Feature Management → Products & Categories → Product Features.
- Click Configure.
- Click Add Group.
- Enter name of the group.
- To save and enter another group, click Save. To exit from this page, click Save & Exit.
Integrator Custom Tables Setting (PRONTO only)
- Open the Integrator client and click the 'Set Options' link for Custom Tables.
- Ensure these tables are not enabled: "stock-master-extra-detail->CUSTOM_STockMasterExtraDetail" and "sytem-table→system_table".
If they are selected, de-select them and click OK.
Once your site is configured as above, you're ready to maintain all of your product feature metadata in the CMS!
Create a Product Feature
A Product Feature is an abstract property that can have two or more values. Some examples are: colour, brand, age group, country of origin, etc. Once created, a product can be tagged with a feature value in Product Maintenance.
- In the CMS, go to to Products & Categories → Product Features.
- Click Add New Feature.
- Enter a suitable name for the feature.
- Toggle ON/OFF the display options as required. See Product Feature Visibility for further information.
- Include in Metadata Summary - add feature as a filter option on the Product List page
- Include in Technical Specification Widget - display on the Product Detail page
- Include in Product Comparison - display as a comparison feature
- Display as Numeric Slider - if feature value is numeric, e.g., price, opt to display values via a numeric slider
- Has a Group? - toggle ON to add this feature to a group for display in Product Comparison
- Click Save & Exit.
Assign Features to Products
- In the CMS, go to Products & Categories → Product Maintenance.
- Use Search to find the product to update and click Edit.
- Scroll to the Features section.
- Click Add Feature and select from the dropdown.
- Enter a value for this feature.
- To add another product feature, click Add Feature and go through steps 4-5.
- Click Save.
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