Products selections are used in boost, bury, category page product lists, and other places in Elevate. Products can be either manually selected or included (or excluded) using a rule-based selection. You can also combine a manual selection with a rule based selection.
Manual selection
If very specific products need to be selected, and not an entire category, you can use the manual selection. When they are selected, they are marked with a green checkmark. The total number of selected products is shown in the top left corner of the product selection dialog. The Search box in the product selection panel can be used to search for products using the search attributes configured for those products, including a product key. The search uses the current locale. Products will be selected for all locales in the same market.
Up to 600 products can also be imported via the menu in the top right hand corner of the product selection dialog. However, manually selecting that many products is not recommended and a better approach is to create a rule-based selection based on a custom attribute.
Rule based selection
Products can be included in, and excluded from, a selection using one or more rule sets. A rule set can include several rules where each rule can either include or exclude products where a configured attribute (such as brand name or product category) has one or more values found in Elevate.
If more than one value is selected for an attribute in a rule, the values considered to be using the logical OR operator. For example, if a rule with the attribute brand has both "Adidas" and "Nike" as values, products with either of these brands ("Adidas" OR "Nike") will be selected.
Each additional rule in a rule set is based on the data returned by the previous rule (the logical AND operator). The final product selection within the rule set is based on the data returned by the last rule. This is useful when narrowing down a product set.
Example:
A rule set has two include rules where the first rule has the attribute brand with the value "Adidas" while the second rule has the attribute color and the value "Black". The final product selection is then products with the color "Black" from the data set where brand is "Adidas".
It is not recommended to use different rules using include with the same attribute within a rule set as they most likely return no products. Meaning, if a rule set has two include rules where first rule has the attribute brand and the value "Adidas", and the second rule also has the attribute brand but the value "Nike", it will not return any products at all. This is because no products with "Nike" as brand are present in the data returned where brand is "Adidas".
Using several rule sets
Several rule sets can be used simultaneously. The rule sets operate independently of each other (meaning they use the logical OR operator).
Individual products included by a rule set can be excluded if they are are deemed unfit for the selection. The products can either be excluded using a rule to exclude products by their IDs or by selecting them individually in the selection overview. Selected products are toned down visually with a text denoting that they are blocked.
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