With guided navigation, the shopper can make selections to narrow their search results. Commerce Reference Store uses Endeca dimensions and dimension values to populate this section of the guided navigation page, including a special price slider driven by a filter. The navigation screen with callouts indicating dimensions is shown in the following illustration.

Endeca-Driven Search and Guided Navigation

Category is the first dimension that is displayed in this section and since all products that are displayed on the shopping site in Commerce Reference Store belong to a category, Category will always display as a dimension. When a shopper enters a query into the Search Box, search results are returned and any relevant dimensions and dimension values are displayed, in the following order:

On CRS Store

On CRS Home

Dimensions and Dimension Values

The number of results are displayed in parentheses next to each dimension. As the shopper makes further search refinements by selecting dimension values:

For multi-select dimensions, there is no limit to the number of dimension values a shopper can select. If the shopper selects all of the available values in a dimension, that dimension is no longer displayed in the dimension area of the left hand rail. For example, if three colors were returned and then they selected each one in turn, the Color dimension no longer displays in the guided navigation list. If they then deselected one of those values in the breadcrumbs area, that dimension and dimension value would redisplay in the dimension area.

Price Slider Behavior

The default state of the price slider displays the full price range of each site. For example, the full price range on CRS Store (US and Germany) is: $0 - $500.

The price slider has a lower limit slider, which can be raised and an upper limit slider, which can be lowered. Whole numbers rather than decimal values are displayed on the price slider.

Guided Navigation Configuration in Experience Manager

Use Experience Manager to control the display and order of dimensions using the ATGRefinementMenu or PriceSlider cartridges, which are children of the GuidedNavigation cartridge.

The RefinementMenu, PriceSlider and GuidedNavigation cartridges are in secondary content on the two-column template pages (category and search results pages).

Display dimensions by using these Guided Navigation child cartridges:

For each RefinementMenu cartridge, the shopper can control the following:

You cannot change the labeling of dimensions and dimension values – these come from the index.

The RefinementMenu cartridge is a Commerce Reference Store-specific version of the generic Endeca cartridge. The renderer for this cartridge disables the “More” link on the site in Commerce Reference Store for the Category dimension.

Note: There is just one RefinementMenu cartridge in Commerce Reference Store – you can enable the “More” option, but if it is selected for categories, the renderer ignores it. In other words, if you enable the more “More” option in Experience Manager for the Category dimension, it is ignored since there is no supported mobile renderer.

Price Slider Configuration

You can only change the name of the PriceSlider cartridge.

Guided Navigation Configuration

In this release: