doc/book/devweb/facets.rst
author Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@logilab.fr>
Thu, 23 Jun 2016 08:53:21 +0200
changeset 11370 ec858780b6b7
parent 10495 5bd914ebf3ae
permissions -rw-r--r--
[sobjects] Drop custom unique constraint checks in user registration service This constraints (on unique CWUser's login and EmailAddress's login) are handled by the backend. This follows "[hooks/integrity] kill CheckUniqueHook". Extend test for the ValidationError along the way.

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