Faceted Filter Overview

Faceted filtering provides more site wide searching capabilities for web sites. This function enables site visitors to progressively filter all products on a website by selecting attributes from various dimensions (or facets) of those items. For example, within the automobile industry, there are multiple attributes that you would need to filter on such as make, model, and year of a car.

In CORESense, this functionality is managed using two System Setting managers:

Manager	Purpose
Faceted Filter Administration	Used to create Faceted Filter Profile Hierarchies which reflect your Product Type Attributes. Product Type Attributes are maintained in their individual custom Technical Configuration Value tables under System Settings. Profile Hierarchies are populated here so that can be made available in the Faceted Filter Manager for Faceted Filter profile creation and maintenance.
Faceted Filter Manager	Create Faceted Filter profiles for product assignment. Assign and edit products to profiles. Edit and Delete profiles.

CORESense supports the creation of faceted filter profiles using WorldPac and ACES data in addition to customer generated data.

WorldPac

WORLDPAC imports original equipment and automotive replacement parts directly from manufacturers in the industry. They act as a reseller and their parts catalog is downloaded into back offices of those CORESense customers that wish to access it.

The WORLDPAC integration also requires the ACES tables (VCDB ACE file), which contain specific car IDs that translate the AAIA codes for the industry. WORLDPAC uses theses IDs to match the parts to the appropriate car. IDs include the year, make and model for each car. Both the WORLDPAC and ACES files are downloaded so that the customer products can be recognized. Once the product type attributes are recognized by the fields, it updates the faceted filtering for year, make, and model.

WORLDPAC product types are flagged in orders, which then sends out a unique WORLDPAC API fulfillment.
Parts that are no longer in the WORLDPAC catalog are automatically marked as inactive in CORESense in order to prevent products that WORLDPAC no longer has from being displayed on the website.

ACES Export

Faceted filtering generation uses ACES vehicle fits rather than custom YMM WorldPAC fields. The stored ACES vehicle IDs can be exported from the Tools > Data Import > ACES Vehicle Export.