Facet templates are a powerful new addition within the Facet settings, allowing you to create customizable templates, assign specific facets, and apply those templates to one or multiple pages. Facet templates allow you to apply consistent filtering options across multiple product listing pages. They reduce the need to configure facets individually for each page by enabling the creation of reusable facet configurations. This helps maintain a uniform filtering experience, simplifies setup, and streamlines updates across the site.

From an Elevate user perspective, Facet templates help you:

• Reduce manual effort by reusing predefined facet setups  
• Maintain consistency across similar pages or product categories  
• Quickly identify and resolve inconsistencies across your storefront  

From a shopper’s perspective, it delivers:

• A more intuitive and relevant filtering experience, tailored to each page  
• Faster product discovery by removing unnecessary or redundant filters  
• A smoother, more engaging shopping journey that increases conversion  

How it works

Facet templates are customizable sets of facet configurations that can be applied across one or more product listing pages. Once created, these templates become instantly available across all markets in your organization. This is especially valuable for businesses operating in multiple regions or offering a wide range of product categories. They are designed to streamline the shopper experience by ensuring consistent and intuitive filtering while also reducing manual configuration work for retailers.

When a template is updated, all connected pages automatically reflect those updates. This keeps your filtering experiences up to date without repetitive edits.

Accessing facet templates

All users can access the facet templates to view existing settings. However, only users with the correct permissions can make edits in the view.

To enable editing rights for a user in the application:

1. Go to the Admin tab and select the desired user.
2. In the user profile, navigate to the Experience section.
3. Enable the Can edit global facet templates permission.
4. Click Save to confirm changes.
5. Refresh the application for the updated permission to take effect.

Getting started with facet templates

Facet templates let you create reusable sets of facets that can be applied to one or more pages across all available markets. You can connect a template to a page in two ways:

• From Experience > Pages > Settings > Facet Settings > Facet templates – Connect a facet template to multiple pages at once.
• From an individual page – Select an existing facet template and apply it to that page.

If pages use fixed facets from the default settings (no overrides) and you connect a template to selected pages, the toggle will automatically switch to On for all those pages, overriding the existing page settings.

Facet templates cannot be imported, and you cannot define or assign a template during page import.

Creating your first template

Facet templates are managed in the Experience section of Voyado Elevate. Navigate to Experience > Pages > Settings > Facet Settings > Facet templates.

To create your first template, click Add new template or the plus icon (if templates already exist). This opens the wizard with three steps:

1. Define facets
2. Apply to pages
3. Confirm

You can start by defining facets in the template, save it, and later decide which pages to connect it to and how to handle any existing local page facets.

Defining facets in a template

In Step 1: Define facets, you can add one or more facets to your template using the dropdown list. All facets created in the Facet configurator appear here.

When applied, template facets always appear first, followed by any local facets:

• If the page already has local facets (overrides), you’ll be asked in the Confirm step whether to keep or remove them.
• If a facet exists in both the template and the page, the local page facet will be removed to avoid duplication.
• If the page uses fixed facets from the default settings (no overrides), only the template facets will be applied, overriding the page settings.

Connecting a template to a page

In Step 2:  Apply to pages, you’ll see all available pages containing primary lists.

• Multi-market setup – You can select multiple pages in each market. Pages with the same Page ID will not automatically be preselected across all markets.
• Multi-locale setup – You can choose a locale to view its specific search paths and headings. Selecting a page in one locale will automatically select it in all locales.

By default, the list displays the Page path, but you can switch to Page ID or Page headings using the dropdown.

If a Page path or heading isn’t defined, the Page ID will be shown instead, followed by an asterisk (*).

A search bar is also available to quickly locate specific pages.

Confirming and publishing

In Step 3: Confirm, you’ll see a summary of all template properties.

• Facets – All facets defined in the template
• Usage – All pages where the template will be applied

If a page has local facets, you can choose to:

• Keep them – They’ll remain on the page, but any duplicates of template facets will be removed.
• Remove them – Only the template facets will apply.

You can preview which facets will be visible on the published page. The preview simulates your storefront, showing filters in a list. You can expand each filter to view its values and see exactly what the shopper will see.

• Shows translated facet names from Localization within Experience. If something looks incorrect, you can verify the names there.
• In multi-locale setups, you can switch locales using the dropdown.
• Shows only facets for attributes that exist in the page’s products—if an attribute isn’t present, its facet will not appear.
• If a page has never been published, facet preview is not available.

You can also browse the list of pages in two views:

• List view – All pages in a flat list
• Group view – Pages grouped by Page ID, with expandable previews

Changes are automatically reflected on all connected pages once confirmed. However, if you connect a template to a page that has never been published, you’ll need to publish that page manually before the template changes will appear.

Editing a template

You can edit a template at any time—updating its facets, adding new pages, or disconnecting pages.

In Step 3: Confirm, you’ll see all pending changes:

• Facet list – Added, removed, updated, or reordered facets
• Usage list – Pages grouped by action in separate tabs:
  • Connect to pages
  • Disconnect from pages
  • Update on pages (facet updates)

The process is the same as when creating a new template.

Changes are automatically reflected on all connected pages once confirmed.

If a page has local facets, you’ll be asked whether to keep or remove them. This applies when updating facets, connecting or disconnecting pages.

Disconnecting a template

When you disconnect a template from a page, the template and its facets are removed.

If the page has local facets, you’ll be asked whether to keep or remove them.

You can also use this step to clean the page of any remaining local facets if needed.

If a page has no local facets left, the fixed facets from the Default settings will be restored automatically.

Deleting a template

When you delete a template, it and its facets are removed from all connected pages.

Local facets on those pages remain unchanged.

If a page has no local facets left, the fixed facets from the Default settings will be restored automatically.

Importing pages

Facet templates cannot be imported, and you cannot define or assign a template during page import.

If you import facets to a page with an existing template:

• The template remains connected.
• Imported facets are treated as local facets.
• If an imported facet also exists in the template, it will be deduplicated so it does not appear twice.

Current limitations

• Cloning or exporting: Currently, facet templates cannot be cloned or exported.
• Version control: There is no built-in version control for facet templates.
• Importing: There is no support for importing facet templates as of today.

Search impact

Changes to facet templates do not impact SEO, site performance, or indexing.

Article last updated 15 October 2025 12:27