Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Oracle Endeca : what is disabled refinements and how to use?

Definition   Disabled refinements represent those refinements that do not have any results after end use select refine results using gui... thumbnail 1 summary

Definition 

Disabled refinements represent those refinements that do not have any results after end use select refine results using guided navigation.

In many front-end applications, Disabled refinement to display as grayed out to understand what not is available after refinement selection.

Disabled Refinements


Configuring disabled refinements


Disabled refinements can be configured on a per query basis

The MDEX Engine computes the disable refinements that must be returned based on two navigation states

1. The base navigation state. This is Dimension Ne value

2. The default navigation state. Selected navigation state from end user to compare disabled refinement between base and default navigation state.


This can be tested in Endeca jspref application by adding following parameters:-

N=134711+135689&Ntk=All&Ntt=television&Ndr=basedimid+100000+textsearchesinbase+true+eqlfilterinbase+false+rangefiltersinbase+false

Find out screenshot below from jspref:
Endeca disabled Refinement from jspref implemetation

Following java code provides results of disabled refinements:-

DisabledRefinementsConfig disbaledRefinement= new DisabledRefinementsConfig();
disbaledRefinement.setTextSearchesInBase(true);
// Include navigation selections from the dimension with ID 100000 (Value of Ne parameter)in base navigation state
disbaledRefinement.setDimensionInBase(100000, true);

 query.setNavDisabledRefinementsConfig(disbaledRefinement);



Limitation :- 

1. Disabled refinements are not returned for hierarchical dimensions.

2. Dynamic ranking is not supported.



Note:- This feature is not available in Oracle Endeca assembler integration OOTB  and defects has already been raised to Oracle and they are working on it. If you still need this feature than below class needs to be customized 
com.endeca.infront.navigation.request.support.NavigationRequest.

1 comment

Medha said...

Hi, We are trying to customize the com.endeca.infront.navigation.request.support.NavigationRequest class. How to do that? Looks like this doesn't have any component as such to refer to new customized class which extends the OOTB class. Please throw some light. We tried to create same package structure as the OOTB and customized the logic, but that doesn't seem to work.

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