From version 3.4 Viart Shop has been updated with a new feature - possibility to create Filters.

To activate filters firstly set permissions to access filters via Administration > Privileges Groups > Edit Administrator and check off the option 'Filters'.

When this is done go to Administration > CMS > Filters. You will see such setting:

Press 'Add new filter' link, select type 'Products' (only product filters are available at present), specify the name of the filter, for example 'Filters' and give some description if necessary. Please, see below a sample:

Save the changes and you created a Filter group. You will see Filter options appeared. Press the 'Filters Options' and then 'Add new' link to create Filters. Let's create a few sample filters.

A Filter for manufacturers

For example, you want to create a filter 'Manufacturer'. This is a rather simple filter and does not require a lot of settings. Please, refer to the image below for a sample:

where

• Option Order is an order No for this filter,
• Option Name is a name for this filter, like Manufacturer,
• Type is the type of available filter option,
• Order defines the order in which you want to place manufacturers.
• Value ID is a manufacturer ID number. To know the manufacturer ID, please go to Administration > Products > Manufacturers, and view a correspondent ID in the 'ID' column,
• Title is the manufacturer name. Please, ensure that you created manufacturers via Administration > Products > Manufacturers.

Press the 'Add new' link to save this Filter. When completing this, go to Administration > CMS > Site Layout > Products Listing Page and add your Filter block to any of the columns. Do not forget to select a manufacturer(s) for products, otherwise this or that manufacturer won't be displayed in the filter. Then check the site.

If everything is set correctly, then your Manufacturer filter will look like the below:

Press the link 'Amazon' for example and view the items of this manufacturer. To return to your filters' list press the "remove filters' link.

A filter for rating

Let's consider that you want to make a rating filter. In this case you can use the below sample:

where

• Option Order is an order No for this filter,
• Option Name is a name for this filter, like Rating,
• Type is the type of the option (in our case we'll use Price type for Rating filter),
• Title column is used for specifying the rating estimates,
• SQL Where sets an SQL query which retrieves the data from the database and displays the necessary result.

A Price Filter

You may wish to attune a price filter on your site. This can be performed with the below settings:

where

• Option Order is an order No for this filter,
• Option Name is a name for this filter, like Pricing,
• Type is the type of the option,
• Title column is used for specifying the pricing range,
• SQL Where sets an SQL query which retrieves the data from the database and displays the necessary result.

If everything is set correctly, then your Pricing filter will look like the below: