How To Add a Product with Filters

Overview

In this how-to you will learn how to create a product with filters. At the end of it you will have added a property group a property, a category with three products and a filter portlet.

Note

If you don’t have a working LFS instance yet, you can just use our demo shop at http://demo.getlfs.com. Please be aware that we reset the database every two hours.

Steps

First we will add the corresponding filter portlet:

1. Go to Management / Shop / Preferences.

2. Go to the “Portlets” tab.
3. Select Filter portlet and click Add portlet. Enter Filter in the Title field and click Save portlet. You should now see the filter portlet within the Left slot section.

Now we will add properties, which are the base for the product filters.

4. Go to Management / Properties / Properties.
5. Add a new property by clicking Add property. (If there is no property. at all yet you will see the Add property form automatically).
6. Enter the Name of the property, in our case Size and click Add property.
7. Go to Field type, select Select field and click Save property type.
8. Now go to Options and fill in the Name field. In our case Small. Click Add option.
9. Repeat step 8 for Middle and Large. Now you should see three options within property Size: Small, Middle and Large.

Now we will add a property group.

Note

Every property has to belong exactly to one property group in order to use it with a product.

10. Got to Management / Properties / Property Groups.
11. Add a new property group by clicking the Add property group button. (If there is no property group at all yet you will see the Add property group form automatically).
12. Enter the Name of the property, in our case T-Shirts and click Add property group.

Now assign the property to the property group:

13. Go to the “Properties” tab.
14. Select Size and click Assign properties.

You should now see Size within Assigned properties.

We will now add the Property group to some products.

15. Go to Management / Catalog / Products.
16. Add a new product clicking Add product. (If there is no product at all yet you will see the Add product” form automatically).
17. Fill in Name T-Shirt One and Price 10.00 and click Add product.

No we assign values to the properties:

18. Go to the Properties tab of that product.
19. Select our Property group T-Shirts and click Update property groups You will now see the Property Size.
20. Select Size Small.
21. Repeat Steps 16 - 20 for T-Shirt Two and T-Shirt Three and assign sizes Middle and Large and prices 100.00 and 1000.00. Now you should have three products T-Shirt One, T-Shirt Two and T-Shirt Three with sizes Small, Middle and Large and prices 10.00, 100.00 and 1000.00.

We need to make the products active:

22. Go to Management / Catalog / Products Overview.
23. Select Active for all products and click Save.

Now we add a new category T-Shirts:

Note

Filtering takes place on products of a category, hence we add a category for our newly products.

24. Go to Management / Catalog / Categories.
25. Add a new category by clicking “Add category”. (If there is no category at all yet you will see the “Add category” form automatically).
26. Fill in the Name: T-Shirts and click Add category.

Now we assign the products to the category:

27. Go to the products tab of that category.
28. Select the products T-Shirt One, T-Shirt Two, T-Shirt Three and click Add to category.

Now we are ready to preview our new content:

29. Click on the Preview button. You should now see the filter portlet with the ability to select the sizes Small, Middle and Large and prices 0 - 500.00 and 501.00 - 1000.00.

What’s next?

• Add some more properties to the property group T-Shirts.
• Add the property group T-Shirts to more products.
• Assign products and values via Property Groups:
  1. Go to Properties / Properties Groups
  2. Select T-Shirts
  3. Go to Products tab
  4. Go to Values tab
• Check out the other options of the properties, e.g. the Field type or the Unit field.
• Check out creating variants on base of properties and see how filters work with variants too.