Search Result Facets

When you select a facet, your search results are refined. Facets are defined by search categories and must be defined in each search definition included in the search category.

Facets appear on the left side of the search results and are the Filter-By facets that can be used to narrow search results.

Each facet displays a number in parenthesis, which indicates the number of results for that facet value. This provides a way to refine search results. When you click on a facet value in the Filter by section, the system initiates another search using that particular facet value. For example, clicking on a facet value of “Business Unit – US001 (19)” would reduce the search results to 19 results.

After selecting one facet value, you can continue to select other facet values to find the ultimate record for which you are searching. Each facet selected is displayed above the Filter by label and can be removed if you want to select a different filter.

Within Financials and Supply Chain, certain common facets are enabled within components to provide more consistency when searching across various areas, such as creation date. See also, Document Date in the Global Search Category Facets documentation.

In some cases, facet quantities may not agree across facets. For example, facet results for Business Unit displays a total of 25 values across 5 business units; facet results for Item IDs display a total of 45. The reason for this is that there may be multiple items on an index for which the transaction ID is the same, for example, the item ID is at a lower child level than the business unit.