Faceted navigation display within Meta Collections with v11.4?

[Joe]

Does display of faceted navigation work with meta collections in Funnelback v11.4.0 ?

 

I have setup all collections within the meta collection with the same gscopes.cfg and faceted_navigation.cfg.

 

The left-hand menu is displayed on each of the collections that make up the meta collection but it isn't displayed on the meta collection itself.

 

Am I missing something or could it be that this isn't a feature of 11.4

 

I can add &clicked_facet=XXXXX to the url within the meta collection and it works.

[gordongrace]

Hi Joe -

 

Unfortunately, you'll need to poke about in the file structure of Funnelback to apply any changes to a meta collection's faceted navigation configuration.

 

After you're happy with the structure of your meta collection's faceted navigation (you can still edit the config via the Admin UI), you'll need to copy that config into the stem of the live index via the command line, renaming as you go:

cp $SEARCH_HOME/conf/META-COLLECTION-ID/faceted_navigation.cfg $SEARCH_HOME/data/META-COLLECTION-ID/live/idx/faceted_navigation.xml

Ordinarily, this step is automatically performed whenever a collection updates - as meta collections never update, there's no straightforward means of applying this step via the Admin UI or as an automatic task.

 

Other workarounds may include running that command above as a post-update workflow task for one of the component collections, or creating a symbolic link to the faceted navigation config from another non-meta collection.

 

You can manage the gscopes.cfg in a central meta collection, but you'll need to inform each component collection of the location of that gscopes file.  This could be desirable if several collections are inheriting the same set of gscopes.

# $SEARCH_HOME/conf/COMPONENT-COLLECTION-ID/collection.cfg
post_index_command=$SEARCH_HOME/bin/padre-gs $SEARCH_HOME/data/COMPONENT-COLLECTION-ID/offline/idx/index $SEARCH_HOME/conf/META-COLLECTION-ID/gscopes.cfg

See also:

https://docs.funnelback.com/11.4/post_update_command_collection_cfg.html

https://docs.funnelback.com/11.4/gscopes.html

[gordongrace]