1 The facets system

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     4 Facets allow to restrict searches according to some user friendly criterias.

     5 CubicWeb has a builtin `facet`_ system to define restrictions `filters`_ really

     6 as easily as possible.

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     8 Here is an exemple of the facets rendering picked from our

     9 http://www.cubicweb.org web site:

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    11 .. image:: ../images/facet_overview.png

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    13 Facets will appear on each page presenting more than one entity that may be

    14 filtered according to some known criteria.

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    16 Base classes for facets

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    18 .. automodule:: cubicweb.web.facet

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    21 .. _facet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_browser

    22 .. _filters: http://www.cubicweb.org/blogentry/154152

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