How to hide a given category in the "shop by category" facet ?

[Former Member]

We have configured a facet called "shop by category", It lists all the category names for the products from the search results.

We want to hide some categories from the "shop by category" facet.

[Former Member]

Thanks Richard,

How do we give more than one value as root category in the below case. We have multiple root categories that need to be indexed

<bean id="electronicsBrandCategorySource" parent="abstractCategorySource">
    <property name="rootCategory" value="brands"/>
    <!-- 'brands' is the root of the brands hierarchy -->
</bean> 

[Former Member]

If you wish to do this at indexing time then I would extend de.hybris.platform.commerceservices.search.solrfacetsearch.provider.CategorySource to exclude categories you wish to be hidden (perhaps with a flag on Category) and inject that into the value provider.

see yacceleratorcore-spring.xml for an example :

 <bean id="electronicsCategoryCodeValueProvider" parent="abstractCategoryCodeValueProvider">
         <property name="categorySource" ref="electronicsCategorySource"/>
     </bean>

Another option is to actually place these categories in a different category tree, and simply not export categories from the given root category (in electronics examples of root categories exported are 1 and brands).