Predictive Merchandiser makes it easy to group products together so they can be presented to the user. This can be useful when you want to show a product in all of its color variants or the various versions of a product (basic or advanced, for example). Product Groups Product groups can be boosted or blocked. If you want to promote a product group that is on sale, for example, you can boost the group to the top of the results. You can still apply rules individually to products within a group. This allows you to boost a product based on a specific user’s search behavior. If a user typically favors the color red, you can boost the red variant of the product to the top of the group. Red Preference

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Best practices

These parameters group products, and are defined in the Additional Query Parameters Stage:
Parameter NameParameter ValueUpdate Policy
grouptruedefault
group.formatgroupeddefault
group.ngroupstruedefault
group.fieldstyle_id_sdefault

NOTE: You must configure groupField=<field> if you use App Studio to create your search application.
For more information about adding a query pipeline and additional query parameters, see:

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Collapse/Expand parser grouping

The Collapse/Expand parser allows grouping with the following parameters:
Parameter NameParameter Value
expandtrue
enableElevationtrue
groupfalse
See Collapse and Expand Results for more information.