Site Facet

The Site Facet narrows search results down to those existing in a certain site. Each Site with content matching the searched keyword appears as a facet term.

Figure 1: Each Site with matching content is a facet term.

For the Site Facet to display multiple sites, the Search Bar must be configured to search Everything. See more about search scope here. If not searching for Everything, only the current site is searched, and the Site Facet has nothing to display. When this occurs, the Site Facet is hidden on the page.

Note: Configuring the globally embedded page-top Search Bar to search for Everything not only configures the embedded Search Bar on all pages. It also ensures that the Search Page’s Search Bar searches Everything, because the page-top Search Bar’s configuration overrides the Search Page’s Search Bar configuration. The same does not apply to other Search Bar widgets in the site. Each of these must be configured as desired.

If the global Search Bar is disabled, configure the Search Page’s Search Bar widget to search for Everything.

To configure the search scope,

1. Open the Search Bar’s Options menu () and click Configuration.

2. Set the Scope option to Everything.

3. Click Save and close the pop-up.

The Site Facet contains several configuration options:

Figure 2: The Site Facet is configurable.

Site Parameter Name

Set the URL parameter name for the Facet. The default is site. Searching for lunar resort and clicking on a site facet produces the URL

  http://localhost:8080/web/guest/search?q=lunar resort&site=20126

Max Terms

Set the maximum number of facet terms to display, regardless of how many matching terms are found for the facet.

Frequency Threshold

Set the minimum frequency required for terms to appear in the list of facet terms. For example, if the frequency threshold of a facet is set to 3, a term with two matching results doesn’t appear in the term result list.

Display Frequencies

Choose whether or not to display the term frequencies.