The Faceted Search feature enables ATG Commerce sites to provide a navigational structure that is not strictly based on the catalog hierarchy. Facets are like virtual categories that are populated by the results of search queries. Facets are implemented as search refinements, which are used to narrow down search results by searching within those results for only the items that fulfill a certain constraint. For example, a search might return men’s shirts, and then the customer might select a facet value that narrows the results to men’s shirts that are made of cotton.
This chapter describes how to use implement Search on an ATG Commerce site. It includes the following sections:
