Displaying virtual categories on front

[madonzy]

How to display products of virtual category

Preconditions

OS: Linux debian-8 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 (2017-03-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Magento Version: 2.1.4 CE
ElasticSuite Version: 2.3.3
Environment: developer

Steps to reproduce

1. Add new category inside Root category.
2. Set it as virtual
3. Set rule "Color is one of Blue."
4. Save
5. Full reindex & cache clean

Expected result

The storefront will show me results in my virtual category page.

Actual result

Now in the admin panel, I can see all products that really have attribute color with value Blue. But storefront don't show me any products in this category

[webagil-kevin]

Same issue #366

[madonzy]

@DogSports I see that you are able to see products with some like "manual sort", what does it mean? I can't see any products at all.

[romainruaud]

Confirmed.

We'll try to provide a fix for this one quickly.

Regards

[romainruaud]

When enforcing the catalogsearch layer to be used on catalog navigation, we introduced a biasis causing to always apply the addCategoryFilter method on the product collection.

This causes all categories to include a "must category_id=XXX" which indeed works for standard categories but produces conditions like "must color=blue AND category_id=XXX" on virtual categories which is not reliable.

It also causes a double appliance of "category_id=XXX" on standard category but does not fail since it does not change anything to the result.

[madonzy]

@romainruaud sorry, but I'm not sure I understand you correct. Please provide any steps to make virtual category show products on the storefront. Does your response mean that it's problem on my side or on the side of elasticsuit?

[romainruaud]

Sorry if you did misunderstood my answer : the problem is clearly on our side and due to the latest release. You can consider downgrading to 2.3.2 till we fix the issue and provide a new release.

We are working on it and expect to provide a fix soon.

Best regards,

[romainruaud]

Fixed by PR #368 , please migrate to 2.3.4 version and process cache clean and compile.