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Preview with sort effect annotations

When you preview a sort order, the preview panel annotates each product with the sorting rules that affected its position. These annotations make it easy to understand why products appear where they do and to fine-tune your configuration. Each product can display:
  • Promoted / Demoted badges — color-coded indicators showing which priority rules matched the product and whether they pushed it up (green) or down (red).
  • Soft Boost badges — blue indicators showing which soft boost expressions matched, along with the computed boost value.
  • Metric values — the actual numeric value used for sorting when a metric or numeric attribute is part of the sort order. Hover to see the metric name.
Each badge includes the position number of the rule in your sort order (e.g., “Promoted by #1”), so you can trace every effect back to its source expression. Products that don’t match a given rule won’t show a badge for it. For step-by-step instructions, see Preview a sort order.

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