Working with Attributes and Refinements

This section discusses attributes and Guided Navigation. It also describes how to retrieve and display refinements in your front-end Web application powered by Endeca Server.

About Guided Navigation
Guided Navigation is a key feature of Endeca Server.
About refinements
Refinements allow end users to explore their data records using Guided Navigation.
Working with refinements in Studio and other front-end applications
Refinements are handled slightly differently in Studio than in other front-end applications powered by Endeca Server.
Schema configuration for enabling refinements
The schema configuration for your records specifies whether attributes are enabled to be used as refinements.
Configuring the order of suggested refinements
Refinements can be displayed using either the default order for the attributes, or the order that you specify per query.
Configuring whether to display refinement counts
Refinement counts represent the number of records (in the current navigation state) available beneath a given refinement value. These counts are computed dynamically at run-time by Endeca Server and can be displayed in the user interface.
Displaying refinements on multi-select attributes
This section describes refinements for attributes that can have multiple values. It discusses how to configure attributes for multi-select refinements and also how displaying such refinements affects the user interface.
Working with attributes and refinements using the API
This section provides examples of Conversation Web Service requests and responses that work with attributes and refinements.
Performance impact of returning and displaying refinements
This topic summarizes performance impact for returning and displaying refinements, refinement ordering, refinement counts, and using multi-select managed attributes.