The filter widget is now enriched with a faceted search functionality to provide an improved overall user experience and to ensure faster decision-making.
With faceted search, you can find values in relation to each other and see the number of matching results for each of the filters, even for those which are not currently selected.
Setting up a faceted search involves a number of steps, such as:
- Creating a proper facet search-related query template with parameters, stages, and callers
Such a query template will only return the available filters and the number of matching results. For comparison, a regular query template will return the results themselves.
- Using this query template in the filter widget as a data source of the dedicated category, namely Facet Search Template
- Creating general filters in the filter widget and marking them as a Facet search field (see the last field on the screenshot below)
- Creating the relevant other widgets on the same dashboard and linking their data source parameters to the references from the filter widget
Find more information about faceted search in the following parts of the documentation:
- User guide > Filter widget
- Tutorials > Configuring the faceted search
- User guide > Examples > Query templates: Faceted search
If you are new to query templates, you may also find useful the following related topics:
- User guide > Creating a query template
- Developer guide > Query templates