📖 Boost AI Search & Discovery provides tools to set up custom filter trees with all available product attributes based on your business products.
What is a filter tree?
A filter tree lets customers narrow product searches by criteria like price, color, reviews, or size. Each criterion is a filter option, determined by the products shown on a collection or results page. Boost creates filter options from Shopify product attributes and metafields, with each option supporting up to 1,500 values. For example, a Color filter might include values like red, green, and blue.
In the example below, the filter tree has two options: Style (Classic, Goth, Exotic, Punk) and Brand. Each option contains multiple values shoppers can use to refine results.
Types of filter trees
Our app offers 2 kinds of filter trees of different scopes.
Standard filter trees
Consists of a Default filter tree and a Search filter tree.
A Default filter tree is a filter tree that applies to all collections' pages by default. It ensures that your online store always offers a filtering solution on any collection page.
A Search filter tree is a filter tree that is displayed on search result pages by default. The filter tree allows your customers to narrow down the right products among the search result displays.
When you disable the Search filter tree, the Default filter tree will apply to search result pages.
Custom filter tree
💡 When you create a Custom filter tree and apply it to a specific collection’s page, this Custom filter tree will replace the Default filter tree.
Custom filter trees work just like a Default filter tree, offering multiple filter options. The difference is that you can fully customize them and apply each tree to specific collection pages, ensuring the best filtering experience for every category.
If you delete or disable a Custom filter tree on a collection page, the Default filter tree will automatically take its place.
How to configure your filter trees
The following picture lets you know which filter trees can be added, enabled, disabled, customized, and deleted.
💡 Only one filter tree can be applied to one collection at a time. However, one filter tree can be applied to many collections at once.
To enable/disable a filter tree
From the app’s dashboard, go to Filter > Filter trees.
Toggle the Status button of the filter tree that you want to enable to disable.
To create a custom filter tree
From the app’s dashboard, go to Filter > Filter trees.
In the Custom filter trees section, click Add new filter tree.
Fill in the name of this filter tree and select one or multiple collections that you want this filter tree to apply to.
Click the Add filter option to fully set up this filter tree with the necessary product attributes.
Click Save on the Edit filter option page after you complete setting up a filter option.
Click Save on the Filter options page.
To clone a filter tree
From the app’s dashboard, go to Filter > Filter trees.
Click the duplicate icon of the filter tree that you want to clone and select the number of clones you want to create.
💡Duplicates of the Default filter tree and Search filter tree will be assigned in the Custom filter tree section.
To delete a filter tree
From the app’s dashboard, go to Filter > Filter trees.
Click the trash icon of the filter tree that you want to remove. Keep in mind that deleted filter trees cannot be recovered.
Click Delete.
To temporarily remove a filter tree from a specific collection:
Our app allows you to remove any filter tree from a specific collection in your Shopify store:
From your Shopify admin, go to Products > Collections.
Click on the collection that you want to remove the filter tree created by our app temporarily.
In the Online Store section, choose boost-pfs-original (V2)/boost-sd-original theme (V3) in the drop-down of the Theme template.
Click Save.
Check if the collection does not have a filter tree created by our app on your storefront.
💡This customization will change the theme template of your collection page from your Boost-integrated theme to your original theme.
To reapply our filter tree to your collection, you can follow the same steps but select Default collection this time.
Feel free to reach out to our dedicated support team via chat if you have any questions or require additional assistance.