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Request to display search facets on browse landing page #1994

Open caaster opened 3 years ago

caaster commented 3 years ago

From: Josh Capitanio Re: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/tohp

Since it sounds like you have already received a lot of feedback from other curators, I hope that you won't mind if I offer one suggestion for future consideration: it would be nice if there was an option to display the search facets in the "Browse" categories. Unlike some of the other exhibits, this particular collection doesn't lend itself well to a features-based interface - my goal is more to create an easy way for users to navigate and sort all the interviews based on the detailed metadata that the donors provided (particularly the keywords), which is not possible when viewing the collection in SearchWorks. For now, I am going to be keeping the facets in the Home page and encouraging users to do keyword-based filtering through the facets on that page, but I agree with the suggestion in the exhibits documentation that the Home page would look cleaner without the facets and would prefer to direct users to start with the Browse pages and use the facets to narrow down their selections.

corylown commented 3 months ago

We need to meet with Josh to discuss this request so that we understand the requirement more completely.