[ckan-dev] Hide empty search facets boxes

Wed Apr 17 13:03:05 UTC 2013

> I vote for fixing in 2.1  

Yes, let's fix it for 2.1.  

However we need to examine the conditions for showing and hiding them as from a UX POV I don't think it's as simple as saying: if facets.length is 0 then hide.

Currently you can get into states with multiple facets that mean that facet groups can have nothing in them. This would mean that they would become hidden… but I think that it still makes sense to show to the user that they can still facet by that group even if they can't see facets within them.

I've started a issue for 2.1 [1]. Let's iron out the conditions for showing and hiding on the issue. Also we should discuss the way that the 'Show more/only popular ...' links work when multi-faceting.

[1] https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/780

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John Martin
Front End Developer, CKAN

On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 13:34, Toby Dacre wrote:

>  
>  
> On 17 April 2013 12:43, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org (mailto:sean.hammond at okfn.org)> wrote:
> > Currently on the dataset search page in 2.0, if a site has no groups,
> > there's still a box titled "Groups" at the top of the sidebar that just
> > contains "There are no filters for this search". If the site isn't using
> > groups at all (which seems common) this useless box will stay pinned at
> > the top of the page forever, unless they use an IFacets plugin to hide
> > it.
> >  
> > This also applies to other facet types eg. tags when there are no tags
> > on the site, etc.
> >  
> > Should a facet box be hidden if there are no objects of that type on the
> > site to facet by? Is this a feature we should add in 2.1?
>  
> I vote for fixing in 2.1  
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