Configure Property-Based Navigation

The property-based navigation page appears when Meridian Explorer users select the Property based navigation option in the Search ribbon. This lets users perform cascading (faceted) searches. You can configure the options and the properties that are shown on the page.

To configure property-based navigation:

1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the Repositories group, click Views.

   The Explorer Views page appears and lists the existing views grouped by the repository that they were created for.

2. Choose between two options:

   • Double-click the view that you want to configure.

   • Select the view that you want to configure and then in the toolbar, click Properties.

     Do not click Edit. Clicking Edit allows you to edit the view's definition as described in Create And Edit Repository Views, not edit its configuration as described in this topic.

     The view's configuration pages appear.

3. In the menu, click Search Settings.

   A sub-menu and options for the feature category appear.

4. In the sub-menu, click Property Navigation to show the available options.

5. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

6. Configure the properties.

   • To add a property to the list:

     1. Click Add Property.

        A property is added to the end of the list.

     2. Select the new property.

     3. Click Edit to select a different property name.

   • To configure the property hierarchy:

     • Drag a property's icon to the preferred location in the list and drop it when the tooltip icon has an arrow pointing above the list item.

       The property is moved to the new location. The tooltip icon indicates an invalid destination.

   • To remove a property:

     1. Select the property that you want to remove.

     2. Click Remove.

        The property is removed from the list.

7. Click Save.

Property navigation options

Option	Description
Enable	Makes this property navigation definition visible and available to users. Disable this option to hide the page from users.
Default	Makes this property navigation definition the default navigation for users.
Maximum values to display	The maximum number of unique values to show for each level of the layout after the user has clicked the (more…) link. If more values than this number exist, a text box will appear that the user can use to filter the values with the Contains operator.