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Navigation provider that is index backed

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Scott Forsyth Dynamicweb Employee
Scott Forsyth
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Posted on 03/05/2018 17:42:19

It would be great to have a navigation provider that works off of a repository index. We find that we use Assortments often just because of the assortments navigation provider since it hides empty ecom groups. However, we have some projects that have proprietary products that vary per customer. So it would result in hundreds of assortments.

Instead, if there is an IndexNavigationProvider, it can build the navigation based on an index that we control, and we can have a filtered result in the navigation that could be different for 100 different customers.

There is still a place for assortments but this would give us a choice of method depending on the situation. 


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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 03/05/2018 23:52:11
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Hi Scott

I am not sure how that should work? Is it based on a search that return a number of products, create a navigation based on what that search returns? And if someone adds another parameter value to that search limit groups more?

It does sound like a facet - except it is rendered in a group tree structure.

BR Nicolai

 
Scott Forsyth Dynamicweb Employee
Scott Forsyth
Posted on 04/05/2018 03:28:41
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Hi Nicolai,

Good questions. I would think that for this purpose we would create a query that doesn't have any querystring parameters. It would filter based on the user and that's about it. Selecting which products to use would probably need a custom schema extender. And it does seem like a facet that is rendered as a group tree structure, with depth to it.

Scott

 

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