Displaying descriptors is the ability to display a summary of the navigation refinements that have been made within the current navigation query.

Descriptors (also called selected dimension values) are the dimension values that were used to query for the current record set. The display of these values can take various forms, dependent upon the application. They could be displayed in a linear, navigation history format, or through a stacked list of values. With these values displayed to the user, the user can also be given the ability to remove individual refinement values from their navigation query, thereby increasing the scope of their search.

No Dgidx or dgraph flags are necessary to enable displaying descriptors. Any dimension value that has been selected is available to be displayed.