Product Grouping

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Best practices
- Collapse/Expand parser grouping

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

Best practices

These parameters group products, and are defined in the Additional Query Parameters Stage:

Parameter Name Parameter Value Update Policy

Parameter Name	Parameter Value	Update Policy
group	true	default
group.format	grouped	default
group.ngroups	true	default
group.field	style_id_s	default NOTE: You must configure `groupField=<field>` if you use App Studio to create your search application.

group

true

default

group.format

grouped

default

group.ngroups

true

default

group.field

style_id_s

default

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:

Collapse/Expand parser grouping

The Collapse/Expand parser allows grouping with the following parameters:

Parameter Name	Parameter Value
expand	true
enableElevation	true
group	false

Parameter Name

Parameter Value

expand

true

enableElevation

true

group

false

See Collapse and Expand Results for more information.