doc/book/devweb/facets.rst
author Philippe Pepiot <philippe.pepiot@logilab.fr>
Mon, 30 May 2016 17:41:12 +0200
changeset 11344 847ab4bdd985
parent 10495 5bd914ebf3ae
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[schema] Cache RQL expressions on schema loading Add a mapping rql string to rql statement Deserializing schema is ~36% faster with a lot (> 4000) expressions like those generated by cubicweb-container.

The facets system
-----------------

Facets allow to restrict searches according to some user friendly criterias.
CubicWeb has a builtin `facet`_ system to define restrictions `filters`_ really
as easily as possible.

Here is an exemple of the facets rendering picked from our
http://www.cubicweb.org web site:

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

Facets will appear on each page presenting more than one entity that may be
filtered according to some known criteria.

Base classes for facets
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. automodule:: cubicweb.web.facet


.. _facet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_browser
.. _filters: http://www.cubicweb.org/blogentry/154152