trying to understand filters

Hi,

Yes, you want to create one custom field of the table "product" per attribute via the Display>Custom fields menu. You can use the type "single dropdown" or "multiple dropdown" or "checkbox" or "radio" based on how you want to be able to select the attribute value in each product. These custom fields will have a section "values" where you can enter the possible values.
Then, when you create a filter in the Display>Filters menu, you can select the "apply on" to "custom field" and below select the custom field on which you want the filter to base itself on. It will automatically use the values of the custom field to fill the choices of the filter.
You can read more about custom fields and filters here:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/4...shop-field-form.html
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/1...-filter-listing.html

Hi,

You should leave the categories and products settings empty unless you want to restrict the custom field to only some products or only some categories. And no need to set them both.

We would need screenshots of the settings of:
- the module
- the filter
- the custom field
That should allow us to tell you what to do.

Hi,

So, a few things:
- The fact that you can't add values to the filter is normal. The filter automatically takes the values of the custom field. The values there can be used for other types of filters. For example, if you configure a filter on a custom field of the type "text" where you enter numbers in each product, you can enter values there so that the filter will display the choices as ranges. For now, you don't need to bother with this.
- On the listing of products, I can see that the values of the custom fields are displayed. You probably don't want that. In that case, you want to turn off the "front-end listing" display setting of your custom fields.
- The fact that the filters display at the bottom of the product details page is probably because you've selected the filter module in the "modules under the product page" setting of the HikaShop configuration. You want to remove that as you're already displaying the filter on the left sidebar.
- Since you've selected the Cards category in your filter, the filter won't appear on the frontend on any page where the main area isn't displaying the products of that category. So, if you're displaying a listing of all the products under the main category, the filter won't appear on the listing. If you want it to appear there, you need to remove that category restriction.
- In the filter module, you've activated the "force redirect" setting. This means that when you use a filter of the module, the system will redirect you to the menu with the id entered in the "menu" setting above so that the filter will be done on the products displayed by default by this menu item. So, usually, you want to enter the id of a menu item configured to list all your products in that "menu" setting (and you don't want to restrict your filter to some categories).

Hi,

In the settings of your filter module, you have an option to display the reset button.
Also, you can change the way the filter behaves once something is selected in it with the "deletable filter" setting.