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Elasticsearch is a real-time distributed search and analytics engine that allows you to explore your data very quickly. It is used for full-text search, structured search, analytics, and all three in combination.
And it packages up all this functionality into a standalone server that your application can talk to via a simple RESTful API, using a web client from your favorite programming language, or even from the command line.
The Advanced Layered Navigation extension will allow you to make the link between the search and analytics engine and Magento 2.
You can find more information on the product here:
As Elastic advises, "the easiest way to understand what Elasticsearch can do for you is to play with it".
To be able to use the Advanced Layered Navigation extension and reach the server, you first need to have a recent version of Java. You can easily install the latest version of Java from www.java.com.
Then you can install and run the Elasticsearch engine following the below steps.
You can download the latest version of Elasticsearch from elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch.
To run Elasticsearch, open a console, and run the following command:
cd elasticsearch-<version>
./bin/elasticsearchIf you’re running Elasticsearch on Windows, simply run:
bin\elasticsearch.batYou can easily test if the Elasticsearch engine is reached by trying to access http://localhost:9200/?pretty or by opening a new terminal window and running the following:
curl 'http://localhost:9200/?pretty'You should then get:
You now have an Elasticsearch node up and running.
You can also check the official documentation to install Elasticsearch.
You can enable the Advanced Layered Navigation extension in:
StoreS › Wyomind › Elasticsearch › Layered Navigation
You also have the possibility to enable debug mode.
When it is enabled, a toolbox will be displayed on the frontend with the below information:
Once the extension is enabled, define the URLs settings.
If enabled, attribute codes will be added as keys in the generated URLs for the filters.
enabled: http://www.website.com/men/tops-men/color/blue/size/l-xs.html
disabled: http://www.website.com/men/tops-men/blue/l-xs.html
Note that the category, rating, and price filters cannot be interpreted when the option is disabled and that using identical values for distinct attributes may provide inconsistent results.
Code: https://www.website.com/gear/bags/features_bags/70.html
Label: https://www.website.com/gear/bags/features/70.html
Native: https://www.website.com/women/tops-women//pattern/checked-solid-striped/style_general/jacket.html
When using the Mageworx model, {{PARAMETER}} will be replaced with the value of the Mageworx format: filters parameter field.Mageworx: https://www.website.com/women/tops-women/{{PARAMETER}}/pattern:checked-solid-striped/style_general:jacket.html
filters
Contact us if you need another format.
Configure the display settings. Advanced Layered Navigation offers you two methods of rendering for the product listing pages:
With the Advanced Layered Navigation extension, you can define or translate your own labels for each store view.
Items {{from}}-{{to}} of {{nbItems}}
Show {{control}} items per page
When the infinite scroll is enabled, you can also change the labels for:
{{nbItems}} items
No more product
With Advanced Layered Navigation, you can independently enhance your Category and Search Results pages with an advanced search from:
StoreS › Wyomind › Advanced Layered Navigation › Settings › Display Settings › Category/Search Results Page
For the Category and Search Results pages, you can enable each below option separately:
You can also update "Search Term" information when a search is performed from the search form.
You will then find the updated search terms in:
Marketing › SEO & Search › Search Terms
Enable search terms highlight. If enabled, search terms will be highlighted in the search results data.
Note that the highlight is only available in the Search Results page.
The Infinite Scroll can be enabled in Category and Search Results pages. When enabled, you need to define the:
10 items
600
The Advanced Layered Navigation extension allows you to add as many attribute filters as you need on the top, left, or right side of your Category and Search Results pages.
You can first choose to Hide filters with only one value.
You also have the possibility to refresh the filters according to those that are already selected.
When that option is enabled, you can define how the unavailable filters are displayed:
Finally, you will have to choose the filters options sorting method between:
Choose if you want to enable or disable Breadcrumbs.
If Breadcrumbs are enabled, the path of the filters used to get the current product listing will be displayed.
When Breadcrumbs are disabled, each selected filter will be displayed as below:
If Breadcrumbs are disabled, you'll have the possibility to merge selected values for the same attribute.
If enabled, it displays input boxes below the slider to allow customers to filter products by typing any price value.
The Advanced Layered Navigation extension allows you to add layers in your Category and Search Results pages. You can:
For each layer, you can:
http://www.yourstore/fitness-equipment/color/red-blue
http://www.yourstore/fitness-equipment/color/red-blue/size/s
These URLs can allow users to access the page with the filters already selected.
For each layer, you have the possibility to enable floating layers. If enabled, the left/right layers block will scroll with the page content.
By default, each category page uses the configuration you have defined in:
Stores › Wyomind › Advanced Layered Navigation › Settings › Display Settings › Category Page
Attention, you won't be able to edit the layers' configuration if, from the Display Settings tab of the category, Display Mode is set to Static block only, or Anchor is set to No.
You can quickly apply the same layers' configuration to your category by duplicating the configuration from another category.
This will apply the same configuration to the category you're editing.
You also have the possibility to apply the current layers' configuration to all sub-categories.
The layers' configuration of the subcategories will be replaced by the layers' configuration of the category you're editing.
Note that this operation can take a long time.
Advanced Layered Navigation allows you to configure each category page with specific layered navigation.
For that, go to a category page from:
Catalog › Categories
From the category page, you can go to the Advanced Layered Navigation section.
You have the possibility to switch the Use Store Config option to No and to enable Top / Left / Right / Mobile layers.
Leave the Use Store Config and Enable options to No if you don't want to apply any layered navigation to a category page.
You can now add the layers you want for that category.
Make any search on your website much more relevant, quicker, and user-friendly than the default Magento 2 search tools with the Elasticsearch Suite which includes the Advanced Layered Navigation and also the Multifaceted Autocomplete extensions.
You can configure the Elasticsearch Core according to your needs in the Magento configuration from:
StoreS › Wyomind › Elasticsearch Core
The extension comes with logs in order to help you to check the frontend requests, the indexation, and the Elasticsearch server status.
Note that the debug mode depends on the IPs authorized in your Magento configuration.
A log file is created for the frontend requests:
var/log/Wyomind_ElasticsearchCore_Frontend_Requests.log
A log file is created for the reindexation process:
var/log/Wyomind_ElasticsearchCore_Indexation.log
A log file is created for the Elasticsearch client calls:
var/log/Wyomind_ElasticsearchCore_Client.log
A log file is created for the Elasticsearch Server status:
var/log/Wyomind_ElasticsearchCore_Server_Status.log
When the Elasticsearch Server status log is enabled, you can enable and define your own configuration for the backend notification subject and content.
Note that you have the possibility to use variables in the notification content:
When the Elasticsearch Server status log is enabled, you can enable and define your own configuration for the email notification.
Note that you have the possibility to use variables in the email content:
You can configure the general Elasticsearch settings.
Here will be displayed the version of the Elasticsearch server that you have installed.
6.3.2
Note that the version will be updated with the right value after having saved the config a first time or using a command line.
The servers must be written as host:port and separated with a comma.
Follow this pattern for full available parameters.
Check that your servers are correctly configured by clicking on TEST servers.
This is only used for https connection. You can set that option to No if you don't have a valid SSL certificate.
Number of seconds after a timeout occurs for every request.
5 seconds
This is used to prefix index names in order to avoid potential collisions.
demo_m2_
Having more shards enhances the indexing performance and allows to distribute a big index across machines and having more replicas enhances the search performance and improves the cluster availability.
When clicking on Use system value, the default configuration is reinitiated.
Be careful when modifying this parameter. Write consistency (one, quorum, or all) must be considered in order to avoid timeout write action.
More info here: Index settings properties reference
This is where you can define the analysis settings.
When clicking on Use system value, the default configuration is reinitiated.
See more about the Analysis settings.
Reindex in a temporary index and switch to it once finished. Especially useful for large product catalogs.
In some cases, you might need to reindex indexes automatically as it can take a lot of time. Then you can choose to automatically run indexers via a cron task when they are invalidated.
A notification is displayed in the header of Magento when indexes are invalidated.
If you disable this option, see how to run your indexes manually.
Check the status of the indexes from: System › Wyomind Elasticsearch Core › Manage Indexes
By default, it is set to AND. You may have fewer results with the AND operator but they’ll be more relevant.
"digital camera" is translated to "digital AND camera" or "digital OR camera"
This enables product weight modifier. It is only available for search results.
When product weight is enabled, you can assign a weight to any product from the backend product page in the Elasticsearch tab.
By enabling this option, when a product (configurable or bundle) is found from the data of a child product, then the parent product images will be used instead of the child product images.
Enable this option to return the products available for purchase before the products not available.
You can configure the indexing of the attributes more finely.
Note that 10 is the highest weight.
Note that the automatic mode is suitable in most cases.
See how to create your own analyzers with our module.
0: the number of possible errors is 0 whatever the size of the search word
1: the number of possible errors is 1 whatever the size of the search word
2: the number of possible errors is 2 whatever the size of the search word
AUTO: generates an edit distance based on the length of the term. Should generally be the preferred value.
For the AUTO mode, the length of the words has an impact on the edit distance:
0..2: must match exactly
3..5: one edit allowed
>5: two edits allowed
Check the Elasticsearch documentation for more info on the fuzzy query mode.
The attributes used in the search with Advanced Layered Navigation are automatically added to the Elasticsearch Core index.
You can enable Category Search so that they can be indexed in Elasticsearch.
If you do, you need to select and configure the category attributes that are searchable.
Description
Name
Page Title
URL Key
Category indexing is only used with Enhanced Autocomplete and Multifaceted Autocomplete.
You can enable the search among your CMS pages to be indexed in Elasticsearch.
You just need to select and configure the searchable attributes.
Content, Content Heading, Identifier, Title
You also have the possibility to exclude some pages that may not be relevant from the search results.
404 Not Found, Enable Cookies, Privacy Policy
CMS page indexing is only used with Enhanced Autocomplete and Multifaceted Autocomplete.
When the Product Search is enabled, the products are indexed in Elasticsearch.
You can define the image size in pixels.
50px
The images will be used in the autocomplete with Enhanced Autocomplete and Multifaceted Autocomplete.
Then, select and configure the attributes that are searchable.
Product Name
SKU
Color
Description
Gender
Manufacturer
Attention, after having selected the attributes, indexes are invalidated. According to your configuration, they will be automatically reindexed by cron task, or you'll have to manually reindex them.
You have the possibility to define your preferences for the colors and the display.
Choose the image you want to display when categories and search pages are loading. It can be:
Used for the main elements.
Generally used for highlighting search terms in the search results.
Generally used as the products listing background.
Generally used as the secondary entities listing and layers background.
Dark overlay behind the autocomplete popup.
Available if you have the Multifaceted Autocomplete or the Enhanced Autocomplete extension.
Blurred background behind the autocomplete popup.
Available if you have the Multifaceted Autocomplete or the Enhanced Autocomplete extension.
Smoothly show/hide the autocomplete popup.
If enabled, you can define the duration of the transition in seconds.
0.2
Available if you have the Multifaceted Autocomplete or the Enhanced Autocomplete extension.
The Test Search is equivalent to the frontend search with debug info. This allows you to control how the search will work with the Elasticsearch Core configuration.
You can access the Test Search page from:
System › Wyomind Elasticsearch core › Test Search
You can configure:
After that, you can click on Search.
A grid will display the results for your search.
When clicking on Show details, you should get more details about the results.
This is particularly useful to know everything that is returned in the search.
The explanation field explains how the score is calculated and why the product appears first in the search results.
As our module offers the possibility to create your own analyzers, it is important to be able to test them.
You can access the Test Analyzers page from:
System › Wyomind Elasticsearch core › Test Analyzers
Add your code in the Custom Analyzers field, select the Built-in Analyzers you want to test, and add a Test phrase.
Click on Run Tests.
The result of the analyzer will be displayed in the table below.
Below are some examples:
whitespace: will analyze by separating words with spaces
standard: will separate words with spaces, apostrophes, chevrons ... and remove HTML tags to keep only useful content
You have the possibility to get more information and to manage your indexes directly from the table in:
System › Wyomind ELasticsearch Core › Manage Indexes
The indexes are automatically updated after the below actions:
There are 3 types of index:
In the Description column, when clicking on More information, you can see:
the prefix + the storeview code + the index type
The last time the index has been run will be recorded in the Last Update column.
The last action state will be recorded in this column. You can also see the number of entities that were indexed by hovering the mouse over the status.
When running an index, a progress bar will display its status and some information about the indexing process.
From the Status column, you can see if the indexes are valid of invalidated.
From the Action column, you can choose to:
You can easily see what is indexed at the category, CMS pages, and product level in that section:
System › Wyomind ELasticsearch Core › Browse Data
From the Action column, you have the possibility to:
The extension comes with several command lines you can easily use.
To update the Elasticsearch server version with the right, you can use the below command line:
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:update:server:versionTo update the configuration file which is used on the frontend to avoid loading the full Magento Core, you can use the below command line:
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:update:configTo reindex your data, you can use the below command line:
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex [options]Options:
To reindex all types for the store view which code is “storefr”:
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex -s storefror
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex --store storefrTo reindex products only:
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex -i productor
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex --index productbin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex -i product -p 2or
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex --index product --product 2More examples:
To reindex all index types for all store views and products:
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex
To reindex categories for the store view which code is “storefr”:
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex -s storefr -i category
To reindex categories and CMS pages:
bin/magento wyomind:elasticsearchcore:indexer:reindex -i category cmsWhen running an index, a progress bar will display its status and some information about the indexing process.
Note that this will be logged in Wyomind_ElasticsearchCore_Indexation.log.
Like the product attributes, you can assign weight to your products directly.
To boost your products in the search results, you can give them a weight. For this, go in:
Catalog › Products
There, edit a product you want to showcase.
In the Wyomind Elasticsearch Core tab, you can define the weight from 1 to 10.
Note that 10 is the highest weight. The higher the weight, the more the product will appear first in the search results.
This is only possible when the Product weight option is enabled in the Elasticsearch Core configuration.
You have the possibility to ignore products in the indexation process. For this, go in:
Catalog › Products
There, edit a product you want to ignore.
In the Wyomind Elasticsearch Core tab, you can switch the Ignore the product for indexation option to Yes.
The extension takes into account the synonyms in the search.
You can create new groups of synonyms from:
Marketing › Seo & Search › Search Synonyms
For example, if you create the list of synonyms:
shoes,footwear
This means that when searching for "orange shoes", the extension will search:
orange shoes
orange footwear
If other synonyms are defined such as:
red,orange,yellow
In that case, the extension will search:
red shoes
red footwear
orange shoes
orange footwear
yellow shoes
yellow footwear
All the corresponding products will then be displayed in the same list.
This extension works with Magento Community Edition and also Magento Enterprise Edition. To know if Advanced Layered Navigation is compatible with your Magento version, please check the Compatibility tab.
Magento offers three variations of its product.
As their names have changed over the past few years, here is a recap:
Refer to the below table to know which server is compatible with your version of Elasticsearch:
|
Module wyomind/elasticsearchcore |
Magento |
Elasticsearch server |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2 | v5 | v6 | v7 | v8 | ||
| v2.x / v3.x |
v2.1.x / v2.2.x |
x |
x | x | ||
| v4.x / v5.x / v6.x / v7.x |
v2.3.x |
x | x | x | x | |
| v8.x |
v2.4.x |
x | x | x | x | x |
A license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one single installation
You can pre-register your live domain to your license in advance.
Thanks to this option, you'll be able to get the module ready to use on your domain before it goes live.
To pre-register your production domain:
One license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one installation only. However, it is possible to extend or transfer your license in 2 cases:
To be able to use Advanced Layered Navigation on both your production and testing environments, follow the instructions below:
In order to download Advanced Layered Navigation, log into your Wyomind account:
A new window opens.
Only the latest extension version released within your Support & Upgrade period is available. In order to get the very latest extension version make sure your Support & Upgrade plan is up to date.
When purchasing a module from wyomind.com, you benefit from 12 months of upgrade. Within this period you can at any time download the latest version of the module directly from your account.
To upgrade Advanced Layered Navigation, follow the steps below:
To use Advanced Layered Navigation, you first need to have a recent version of Java installed and the Elasticsearch server running.
To install Advanced Layered Navigation, copy the content of the unzipped folder and paste all files and directories in your Magento 2 root directory.
To install guzzlehttp libraries, run the following commands:
$ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle$ composer require guzzlehttp/ringlocation ~ (index|get|static|report|404|503)\.php${location ~ (index|get|static|report|404|503|elastic)\.php${Add the repository to your composer configuration with the below command:
composer config repositories.{{wyomind "wyomind"}}{{elastic-ecommerce "elasticecommerce"}} composer {{wyomind "https://repo.wyomind.com"}}{{elastic-ecommerce "https://repo.elastic-ecommerce.com"}}Run the composer installer:
composer require {{wyomind "wyomind"}}{{elastic-ecommerce "elasticecommerce"}}/elasticsearchlayerednavigationlocation ~ (index|get|static|report|404|503)\.php${ location ~ (index|get|static|report|404|503|elastic)\.php${In your Command Line Interface, execute:
bin/magento setup:upgrade --keep-generatedIf you are using a production mode, also execute:
bin/magento setup:static-content:deploybin/magento setup:di:compileIn your Command Line Interface, execute:
bin/magento wyomind:license:activate \
Wyomind_ElasticsearchLayeredNavigation,Wyomind_ElasticsearchCore \
ACTIVATION_KEY_1,ACTIVATION_KEY_2or:
bin/magento wyomind:license:activate \
ElasticsearchLayeredNavigation,ElasticsearchCore \
ACTIVATION_KEY_1,ACTIVATION_KEY_2As the {{wyomind "Wyomind"}}{{elastic-ecommerce "Elastic-Ecommerce"}} extensions regularly check if the Elasticsearch server is available, in your Magento 2 installation, you must have a scheduled task up and running from the server side targeting the cron.php file.
For more information on the configuration of cron tasks in Magento 2, you can check their documentation.
With Magento Cloud, the elastic.php cannot be copied to your website root and pub directories because the user does not have the necessary permissions to create these files.
To allow the file to be deployed, you must perform a setup: upgrade locally and manually add the elastic.php and pub/elastic.php files to the repository.
If the elastic.php call throws a 404 error, check that the file exists in the website root directory as well as in the pub directory.
If it is not the case, copy and paste the file from app/code/Wyomind/ElasticsearchCore/ and app/code/Wyomind/ElasticsearchCore/pub.
If you're getting the below error:
script_score: the script could not be loaded
You need to edit the Elasticsearch server configuration elasticsearch.yml file such as below:
script.engine.groovy.inline.search: on
script.allowed_types: inline
script.allowed_contexts: search, updateWhen using Advanced Layered Navigation with the UltimateSEO module from Mageplaza, this could cause an error 500.
For that, uncomment the below line from the elastic.php file available in Magento root directory:
KGC Shop
Magento native layered navigation is very limited in customization, and you often should write custom code to customize it. on the contrary, Advanced Layered Navigation by Wyomind allows you to easily customize each block and filter it's content and options, even if you are not familiar with code.
T
Very good extension with many functions and one of the few layered navigations that work via ajax.
This ensures a very good user experience and short loading times.
Small disadvantages:
Occasional problems with compatibility to other SEO extensions.
Umlauts and special characters are not supported.
Vandark
The extension is very powerful and functional, it adds everything you need A powerful, customisable and fast search engine. An ILN that works perfectly. etc. The support is very friendly and is very involved in solving known problems. As a point of improvement, I think it should be less inclusive in the Themes than the default for magento. It is clear that the extension has been designed on the Lume theme, but almost nobody uses that theme and when installing everything you have to touch CSS to adapt it to your theme. ( it's easy )
Marek
In my opinion, ELN is the best extension of this type on the market. It is very fast, easy to adapt to my needs (I edited style sheets myself). The quality of the code is at the highest level and allows a lot of personalization options. Very fast customer service. I highly recommend.
How merchants put Advanced Layered Navigation to work, step by step.
Security
Initial release for the master version
Initial release for the legacy version
First public release
Specific needs or any ideas of enhancements and new features to add to the extension? Tell us more, we'll get back to you shortly!
