true ajax navigation filter user manual by aitoc
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True AJAXNavigation FilterLightning-fast andSEO-friendly AJAX navigation.
List of features:Significantly speeds up the navigation process;
Uses breadcrumbs-like categories display adoptedfrom Amazon.com;
Enables your customers to shop by multiple attributesin a category;
Highlights current selection directly in the filter block;
Uses popular Price Slider control;
Improves user experience with the fast AJAX filtering,paging and sorting;
Ultra fast pagination;
Ultra fast switch between the list and grid view;
Ultra fast sort by price, name and position;
Ultra fast filtering by multiple product attribute;
SEO friendly (doesn't create duplicate content).
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user manual
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. How to activate the module …………………….……………………..…..3
2. How to re-index True AJAX Navigation Filter…..……………………….4
3. How to enable True AJAX Navigation Filter in your Magento……….6
4. True AJAX Navigation Filter settings ………….…………….…………..7
5. True AJAX Navigation Filter on front-end……………………………….8
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1. How to activate the module
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Go to System > Manage AITOC Modules, check “True
AJAX Navigation Filter” and click “Save modules
settings” button in the top right corner.
Once Save module settings” button is pressed the
notification to rebuild indexes is displayed. True
AJAX Navigation Filter won’t start working before
you rebuild True AJAX Navigation Filter index. Press
Index Management link in notification to proceed to
index rebuild page.
2. How to re-index True AJAX Navigation Filter
To rebuild index go to Admin Panel > System > Index Management and press “Reindex Data” link next to True AJAX Navigation Filter
index.
NOTE!: To get this index rebuilt you need to have Cron set up and configured in your Magento.
If you do not have the Cron set up and configured you need to run Cron manually by opening http://your-store-domain.com/cron.php
This link will show a blank page in your browser window but index management page in admin will show that index rebuild is
processing in background (you need to refresh page to see it). If you have Cron set True AJAX Navigation Filter re-index process starts
in approx. 5 minutes (or according to your Cron settings).
Launching re-indexing by Cron allows to run this process in background and continue working with Admin Panel.
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While re-indexing process is in progress the notification shows “Processing”. True AJAX Navigation Filter is not enabled until re-
index process is complete. Magento default Layered Navigation is displayed instead.
Re-indexing process takes time and depends on the number of products, customer groups, websites and etc. E.g. Re-indexing True
AJAX Navigation Filter index in Magento with about 9000 products with 2 customer groups and 2 websites on the average server
takes about 30 minutes.
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Once re-index is complete the notification shows “Ready” and Magento default Layered Navigation gets replaced by True AJAX
Navigation Filter.
2. How to re-index True AJAX Navigation Filter index
NOTE: In order to get Layered Navigation enabled for the category
in Magento you need to go to Admin Panel > Catalog >
Manage Categories > Choose the category > Display Settings tab
and set “Is Anchor” to “Yes”
This applies either to default Layered Navigation or True AJAX
Navigation Filter.
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3. How to enable Layered Navigation in your Magento
There are 2 configuration settings for True AJAX Navigation Filter. The settings are located at
Admin Panel > System > Configuration > Catalog > True AJAX Navigation Filter.
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4. True AJAX Navigation Filter settings
With our True AJAX Navigation Filter enabled once
category page is loaded customer can filter products by
multiple attributes, switch between pages in current
category, select the number of products to display on the
page, switch between list and grid view, sort by price,
position and name immediately without page reload or any additional requests to the server.
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5. True AJAX Navigation Filter on front-end
Thank you for your interest in AITOC’s extension for Magento.
To buy this extension and browse through other useful modules, please visit our website http://www.aitoc.com/en/magento.html
May you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
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