The Record Spotlight and Horizontal Record Spotlight cartridges highlight featured or dynamic records to the site user. The Record Spotlight cartridge displays results in a vertical layout suitable for placement in a sidebar, while the Horizontal Record Spotlight cartridge displays them in a banner.
The Record Spotlight cartridge is highlighted below in the Discover Electronics reference application:
The Record Spotlight cartridge can be placed in the sidebar to show special deals, highly-rated products, or any other category of featured record results. It can be configured to display the same items across the entire site by including it in a dynamic slot cartridge, or set to restrict results to the current navigation state by tailoring the list of featured records based on the landing page that the cartridge appears on.
The cartridge is highlighted below in the Discover Electronics reference application:
Similar to the Record Spotlight cartridge, the Horizontal Record Spotlight is a rule that can display dynamic or static featured records. You can configure the cartridge to display results based on the end user's navigation state, or to display a set of records independently of it.
Both spotlighting cartridges use the Select Records dialog as an interface for specifying featured or dynamic records. The cartridge configuration interface is shown below:
The Define Spotlight controls contain all of the configurable options:
When spotlighting records based on a query, the following additional options are available:
Restrict to active refinements — Restrict the result set to a combination of the end user's current navigation state and the specified query.
Number of Records — Specify the number of records to display. This is limited to the maximum value that the application developer specifies in the cartridge template based on the capabilities of the application.
Show 'See All' Link — Enable the display of a "See All" link. The end user can click this to display all results, instead of limiting the displayed results to the number specified under Number of Records.
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