The microbrowser is used in several editors in the core cartridges to enable a content administrator to specify a set of records. It is deprecated in this release; use the Select Records dialog instead.
The microbrowser is a lightweight search and Guided Navigation application that enables a content administrator to browse to a particular location in the data set (which may include search terms, dimension refinements, or a combination of both). The content administrator can then do one of two things:
An instance of a microbrowser is usually bound to a list property, which contains items that represent either refinements or record IDs.
The microbrowser communicates with the MDEX Engine to retrieve search and navigation results.
Note
In order to enable the microbrowser, ensure that you have enabled communication between Experience Manager and the MDEX Engine. For instructions, see "Communicating with the MDEX Engine" in the Tools and Frameworks Installation Guide.
The microbrowser uses a data service to access MDEX Engine information. By default, the service is configured to provide relevant record properties for the Discover Electronics reference application.
The data service is configured in the file
<app
dir>config\import\configuration\tools\xmgr\_.json
, as shown
below:
{ "name": "dataservice", "host": "myhost.mydomain.com", "port": "15002", "recordSpecName": "common.id", "aggregationKey": "product.code", "recordFilter": "", "wildcardSearchEnabled": false, "recordNameField": "", "fields": { "product.id": "", "product.name": "plain", "product.price": "currency", "product.short_desc": "" } }
It specifies the following:
Running
<app dir>\control\set_editors_config
pushes
changes to the Discover Electronics reference application.