Simple steps to enable Advance Search & Enhanced Faceted/Layered Catalog Navigation Features for your nopCommerce store using nopAccelerate.

Applicable to:

• nopAccelerate
• nopAccelerate Lite
• nopAccelerate Search
• nopAccelerate Search Lite

Enable nopAccelerate Search Feature

Once you’re done with your first indexing, you can now enable nopAccelerate Advance Solr Search feature for nopCommerce.

Log in to the Administration panel of your nopCommerce store. Go to Plugins > NopAccelerate Solr Search.

Enable Search features and click on Save.

Enable nopAccelerate Catalog Navigation Feature

To enable Catalog Navigation feature of nopAccelerate which enable fast & responsive faceted navigation for nopCommerce, go to Plugins > NopAccelerate Solr Catalog Navigation.

Here, you can enable  Product Listing as per your requirement for Category, Manufacturer & Tag listing pages.

You can enable each individual feature as per your requirement. More settings options may appear that helps you personalize the plugin behaviour.

Enable nopAccelerate Faceted Filters

Once both the plugins are installed, you need to activate it from the Widget Zone to display Filters on the front-end website. To activate it, go to administration panel Content Management > Widgets.

Now activate the nopAccelerate Solr Search and nopAccelerate Solr Catalog Navigation Widget by clicking on Edit button, and then check the Checkbox for Widget under Is active column and click on Update after making changes.

Once this is done, Widgets will be activated and you will see a Multi Facet Navigation Filters on Category pages where filter is configured.

Once done, make sure to Restart Application after saving your changes.

Your Search & Products Catalog Navigation pages are now served from the Apache Solr.

How to load Category Navigation Block from Solr on all page

For loading Category Navigation Block from Solr, You can add below code in all layout files in shared folder. If you have enabled separate theme, you have to add code in theme layout files.


@Html.Action("CategoryNavigation", "Catalog", new { currentCategoryId = currentCategoryId, currentProductId = currentProductId });


Kindly replace above code with following code to load it from Solr.


@*Category Navigation loading from nopAccelerate plugin for better performance on all pages of store. *@
var _pluginFinder = Nop.Core.Infrastructure.EngineContext.Current.Resolve();
var_pluginSettings = Nop.Core.Infrastructure.EngineContext.Current.Resolve();
if (_pluginFinder.GetPluginDescriptorBySystemName("XcellenceIT.Plugin.Solr.Products") == null || !_pluginSettings.CategoryListingEnable)
{
@Html.Action("CategoryNavigation", "Catalog", new { currentCategoryId = currentCategoryId, currentProductId = currentProductId });
}
else
{
@Html.Action("CategoryNavigation", "SolrProduct", new { currentCategoryId = currentCategoryId, currentProductId = currentProductId });
}


← Back to Performing Full Indexing for nopCommerce 2.80