Faceted Search on Drupal

Υποβλήθηκε από aalamaki στις Τετ, 2008/03/19 - 14:18.

Features

The Faceted Search module provides a search API and a search interface for allowing users to navigate content in such a way that they can rapidly get acquainted with the scope and nature of the content, and never feel lost in the data. The Faceted Search provides a set of blocks with different functionalities and a view for showing the search results.

Sample of Usage

On the JEM portal the Faceted Search is currently used for providing a search for the learning resources (repository) at http://www.jem-thematic.net/repository. On the JEM site the Faceted Search is configured to be shown on the right sidebar on the repository pages.

To use the faceted search, first click on any of the tags displayed on the right sidebar and the Faceted Search will return a set of results. To refine the search, it will now provide a set of tags on the right sidebar which are included in the current search result. Clicking the tags again will refine the search further. Faceted Search also provides a keyword search which can be used in similar manner.

Notes on Installation

If you choose to use the Faceted Search in your installation, be advised to use the older version 5.x-0.11 of faceted search at http://drupal.org/node/208521. We experimented with the latest version but it was causing major problems so the older version is preferred.