Your Endeca application can have as many dimensions as needed, and each record in your data set can be tagged with zero, one, or more dimension values within each dimension.
In the illustration below, Bottle A is tagged with the Red dimension value in the Wine Type dimension, and with the USA dimension value in the Country dimension.
By using multiple dimensions to classify your Endeca records, you introduce the possibility for complex navigation queries across multiple dimensions, like those in the following example:
In this example, a navigation query was used. A navigation query is a query that returns a set of records based on user-selected characteristics along with any follow-on information.
Multiple dimensions also allow you to navigate to a record using any dimension tagged to the record, in any order. The navigation queries in both of the following examples produce the same results:
