Introduction

P2Lab Filter has two parts that work independently of each other:

• Storefront filters: the filter panel your shoppers use on category pages, the search page and landing pages, with its look, its addresses and its statistics.
• The admin filter bar: a condition bar above the product, order and customer listings in the administration.

Everything is managed under Catalogues → Filters.

Storefront filters

The shop’s filter panel is built from filter sets. A set lists groups (manufacturer, price, colour, a property, a custom field, a compatibility catalogue…) and decides how each one looks and behaves. Sets are assigned to category pages and search results; a landing page gets the set of its category, and the default set Standard works wherever no assignment fits. Shop defaults hold the settings every set inherits.

• Filter sets: what a set is, where it applies and which set wins.
• The builder: adding groups, display types, AND/OR, counts, with a live shop preview.
• Sources: where a group’s values come from, their order, images, groups and ranges.
• Skins: the panel’s colours, shapes and spacing per sales channel.
• Filter forms: a short “find products” form for a page or the shop’s header.
• Filter URLs and Landing pages: readable addresses for filtered pages, indexing rules, the sitemap.
• Compatibility: catalogues of what products fit, and the shopper’s choice in the shop.
• Where sets show, Overview and Insights: what shows where, what needs fixing, what shoppers use.

The panel works on any theme. It replaces Shopware’s filter panel only in the sales channels where it is switched on (Filters → Overview → Dashboard, Filters in sales channels); elsewhere Shopware’s filters stay as they are.

The admin filter bar

The bar sits directly above three standard Shopware listings:

• Catalogues → Products
• Orders
• Customers

A condition always has three parts, read left to right like a sentence:

Active · is · Yes

The first part is the field (what you filter on), the second is the operator (how you compare), the third is the value. Fields reach into related records too — on the order list you can filter by Customer → Customer group, on the product list by Manufacturer → Name.

Conditions are stored through the same mechanism Shopware uses for its own list filters, so they show up in the sidebar filter panel where Shopware supports them, survive a page reload and travel with the page URL.

• Build conditions for any field of the list or its related records.
• Save groups of conditions and re-apply them with one click — for yourself or the whole team.
• Set default filters that apply automatically when you open a listing.
• Pin favourites and recents so your common searches are always one click away.
• Tune the behaviour — how conditions apply, which shortcuts appear, and more.

Ready? Continue to Installation.