Rules can change which products appear in which order in any product listing
You can define a strategy for each widget of each of your TPO (Touch Point WPO (Widget & Page Optimizer) and this stragy strategy will be responsible to define dynamically what products should appear in which position.
However, sometimes, you want to force one or several produts products to appear on top, in a specific position, or to be removed from the results. While you should only do that for special cases and use dynamical strategies and logic for most situations, it happens you need to have a final control on the reusltsresults. This is what Rules are for!
To create a rule, you must first know and select on what Widget you want this rule to apply (a rule is connected to one widget always), so if you do not know what widget you want to work on, go the the main TPO WPO view to retrieve your widgets strategy and identify the right one.
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