Managing Built-in Facets and Related Results Appearing in a .NET Search Interface

The Coveo .NET Front-End comes with a number of built-in facets and Related Results defined for various .NET search interfaces (see About Facets and About Related Results in .NET Search Interfaces. You can modify which built-in facets and Related Results appear in each .NET search interface.

Note: You can also create new facets (see Adding or Customizing a Facet With the .NET Interface Editor) and Related Results panels.

To manage the built-in facets and Related Results appearing in a .NET search interface

1. Access the Coveo .NET Front-End Interface Editor (see Opening the .NET Interface Editor).

2. Select the Search Interfaces tab.

3. On the menu bar:

   1. In the Current Interface drop-down list, select the search interface that you want to modify.

   2. Click the Features menu.

4. In the navigation panel on the left, click Facets and Related Results.

   In the panel on the right:

   • The facets and Related Results panels currently appearing in the selected search interface are listed under Facets and Related Results in the order that they appear in each of the facet and Related Results zones (Hub default position, Right, Top or Left).

   • The available built-in facets are listed under Built-in Facets. Several built-in facets based on system fields are applicable to content from any repository. Other facets are exclusive to the content of a specific type of repository.

     Examples: The Author facet is applicable to the content of any repository for which the sysauthor system field was populated. The Liferay Type facet is only applicable to Liferay content.

   • The available built-in Related Results are listed under Built-in Related Results.

   

5. You can perform one the following operations:

   • Add a built-in facet to the search interface:

     In the Built-in Facets list, click the Add "[FacetName]" link corresponding to the facet that you want to add.

     Note: For the Type facet, the default list of Allowed Values (facet items) is the following: audio,doc,html,image,mapimail,mime,mpp,msg,one,pdf,ppt,rtf,txt,video,wp,xls,zip.

     If you want the Type facet to show other file types as facet items, simply add the needed file types to the default list in the Allowed Values parameter box (see Adding or Customizing a Facet With the .NET Interface Editor) .

     Example: audio,doc,html,image,mapimail,mime,mpp,msg,one,pdf,ppt,rtf,txt,video,wp,xls,zip,vsd

     The corresponding facet appears at the end of the Facets and Related Results list.

   • Add a built-in Related Results panel to the search interface:

     In the Built-in Related Results list, click the Add "[RelatedResultsName]" link corresponding to the Related Results panel that you want to add.

     The corresponding Related Results appears at the end of the Facets and Related Results list.

   • Remove a facet or Related Results from the search interface:

     • In the Facets and Related Results list, select the check box of one or more facets or Related Results that you want to remove.

     • Click Delete (above the Built-in Facets list).

     • Click Yes when prompted to confirm the delete operation.

   • Change the order in which facets and Related Results appear in the search interface:

     In the Custom Facets list:

     1. On the line corresponding to the facet or Related Results that you want to reorder, click Up or Down as many times as needed to relocate the facet or Related Results in relation with the others in the same zone.

     2. Repeat for each facet or Related Results that you want to reorder.

     Note: When the position of a facet or a Related Results panel is Default, the position is inherited from the search interface or search hub default position (see Configuring the Position of Facets and Related Results Panels With the .NET Interface Editor).

6. Access and refresh the search interface, and then validate that the built-in facet and Related Results changes are as desired.