Use cases

If you want brands to be displayed as images, please go Admin-Templates-Master-Ajax Layered Navigation-Manage filters and do as follows:

Select and click on the attribute to be edited from the grid.
You can see the Attribute information **General tab**. Please select image value in the **Display settings field**.
Now you can configure the options of the attribute at **Options** tab. Click on the attribute you need.
At **Settings tab** please load the image to be shown in the Layered Image field.
Press **Save** button.

Ajax Layered Navigation configuration

Go to ftp app/desing/frontend/base/default/layout/tm/ajaxlayerednavigation.xml, edit file and uncomment the line of the following code:

<!-- <block type="ajaxlayerednavigation/layer_view" name="tm.catalog.left.navigation" before="-">
                <action method="setTemplate" ifconfig="ajaxlayerednavigation/general/enabled">
                    <template>tm/ajaxlayerednavigation/layer/content_view.phtml</template>
                </action>
            </block> -->

After please comment the following section:

<reference name="left">
            <block type="ajaxlayerednavigation/layer_view" name="tm.catalog.left.navigation" after="currency">
                <action method="setTemplate" ifconfig="ajaxlayerednavigation/general/enabled">
                    <template>tm/ajaxlayerednavigation/layer/view.phtml</template>
                </action>
            </block>
        </reference>

Save file and refresh magento cache.

Use cases

Using brand logo images as input elements in layered navigation block

Placing layered navigation block in main column on category page

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