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Product Finder

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Category: Product Finder
Published: 17 August 2022

Guide your visitors to the right articles, in 3 steps.

Product Finder is a questionnaire-based scoring and filtering system for Joomla.

Product Finder for J2.5 and J3.x
Create a questionnaire

1. Create a questionnaire.

Add questions and answers.

You decide if the question requires one answer, multiple answers, or if it can be skipped.

Apply recommendation rules

2. Apply the rules.

Product Finder features an intuitive point & click rules editor.

You choose if an article is recommended, required, disallowed or irrelevant when a certain answer is given.

Publish the questionnaire

3. Publish the questionnaire.

You are ready to go. And yes, it looks just like an App.

Product Finder interface is built upon jQuery Mobile, to be natively compatible with modern mobile devices.

Download Buy Product Finder Advanced Live Demo J3.x

Versions comparison

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Category: Product Finder
Published: 19 February 2014
Description Product Finder
Basic
Product Finder
Advanced
Create and edit questionnaires, questions, answers, rules yes yes
Joomla articles connector yes yes
Falang compatibility, for multi-language site yes yes
Mobile-ready (user interface built with jQuery Mobile) yes yes
Compatible with Gantry framework yes yes
Send results by email, with configurable form  no yes
Customizable mail templates no yes
Email logger to record sender, recipient, email addresses, selections and results no yes
Export log to CVS no yes
K2 Items connector 1 no yes
Hikashop products connector 2 no yes
Price Free € 59.00
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1. K2 connector details
K2 version: 2.6.7
Results ordering: title, alias, order, newest, oldest, hits
Show item category: yes
Show item image thumbnail: yes [article image, k2 images]
2. Hikashop connector details
Hikashop version: 2.2.3 starter
Results ordering: suggested retail price, price, newest, oldest, title, hits
Show product category: yes
Show product image thumbnail: yes
Extra field: MSRP (Suggested Retail Price), Price (currency gathered from hikashop environment)

Changelog Product Finder

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Category: Product Finder
Published: 11 November 2013

Product Finder for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.x

Read more: Changelog Product Finder

Product Finder Quick Guide

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Category: Product Finder
Published: 02 October 2013

 1. Create a questionnaire

- Components > Product Finder Questionnaire

- Click New

- Fill the Title and the Description fields. You can also select an image to be used as background for the questionnaire cover page.

 

2. Add Questions and Answersproductfinder_answers

- Components > Product Finder > Questions

- Click New

- Fill the Question field: this is the text string that is used in the backed.

- Fill the Question Full field: this HTML field is the one actually displayed in the frontend. It can be formatted with paragraphs, headings, images, etc.

- Click Apply

- Click Add Answer button, once or more than once.

- For each answer fill the Label field: this is the text that will be displayed on the frontend

- Fill the Value field: this field is used only in the backed (i.e. in the rule editor as colun heading)

- (Optional) Add one or more separators clicking relevant button. Separators have only labels and no values

- Adjust options, such as parent questionnaire (mandatory), Min. Answers, Max. Answers, Auto Next, etc.

Note: setting Min. Answers to 1 or greater makes the question not skippable.

- Click Save

 

3. Apply Rules

- Components > Product Finder > Rules
- Select the Questionnaire
- Select the Question

The rules grid is shown on the screen, with articles as row headings and answers as column heading.
productfinder_rules
To toggle one rule just click inside the cell at the intersection of one row with one column.
If no rules have been applied beforhand, all rules will be in 'Irrelevant' (neutral) state.
With each click the rule will change to the next state in the following order:

IrrelevantIrrelevant > recommendedRecommended > disallowedDisallowed > requiredRequired

 

Rules explained:

Irrelevant Irrelevant: no changes to the score. The article is not effected by the selected answer.
recommended Recommended: adds 1 to the score. The article is recommended when the user selects that answer.
disallowed Disallowed: excludes the article from the result set.
required Required: force the article into the result set.

Note: the Disallowed rule has precendence over the Required rule.
I.e. if an answer triggers the disabled rule for an article, required and recommended rules will be ignored and the article won't be part of the result set.

 

3. Publish the questionnare

Questionnaires are launched by standard Joomla menu items, so the basic procedure to create a menu item applies.

- Menus > Main Menu
- Click New
- Select 'Product Finder: Questionnaire' as Menu Item Type
- Select the questionnare
- Set options such as number of results, score threshold, ordering, etc
- Click Save

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