Article-based Repeater
This use-case is used to promote articles with the same value as the item you are looking at. For example, you are looking at a product, that is made of nylon and polyester and you want the products that are recommended also to be made of the same material. In this case you need to use this use-case.
In the use-case configuration in the values-tab there are two options. The first option is the field you want to base the similarity on and the second option determines if you simply want the similar products to be boosted to higher positions or all the other
products to be filtered out.
= Boost
= Filter
In the fourth tab (advanced) you can choose the operator (equals, contains, does not contain, …).
The boost weight is the value which defines how much the products should be amplified.
The Options and Settings tabs are explained further below. When you are satisfied, you can click Save&Test and then go to the test-view to see if the behaviour is like what you wanted.
As you can see this product has the ID 36 and has the values Plastic and Rubber.
To test the use case, you have to emulate being on the product detail page of this product. To do this you have to add the ID in the context-tab in the enter and item id-field. In the advanced-tab you can add the field you're promoting in the display fields-field, so you can see if the use-case works correctly.
On the left side, you can see the products normally, on the right, the id is added in the context menu. You can see, the products with the values plastic or rubber in the field products_material are promoted. Also, the products with both of the values in the field are promoted more than the products with only one or the other.