First of all, i have already done a lot of Research about my requirement. i also read everything from this very good blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2013/02/14/how-to-set-up-a-product-centric-web-site-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx
Now my requirement: i have Setup a Content type “Hotel” (document)Â with a site column “Country/City”. This column is of type managed metadata. The Terms for this are created on site collection Level and are basically structured like this.
Country
—- Germany
—-Â Berlin
—-Â Munich
—-Â …
—-Â USA
—-Â New York
—-Â Los Angeles
—-Â …
—-Â Netherlands
—-Â Amsterdam
—-Â …
The Column takes it values from “Country” and is Setup for multiple. That means, the user could upload a document and enter different values in the managed metadata. For example, they could choose “Berlin” and “Munich” but also “Germany” and “Berlin”. Of course i have Setup this as a refinable managed property.
Now Comes my requirement: i have a Enterprise search Center. It is needed to do a Standard search for a keyword only in this document library (which works of course). Now the refinement Panel should Show a selection for the countrys (like Germany) and another one for the cities (like Berlin). The only way to do this which i have found so far is to Setup two instead of one site column (one for countries and one for cities). this is from user perspective not optimal. Now my question: is there any way to accomplish this without real development ?
Hi Thomas,
Did you ever find a good solution for this? I’m having the exact same requirement and I’m rather stuck right now 😉 thanks!
Bouke
Hi,
SharePoint doesn’t support hierarchies in refiners. Our “Term Tree refiner webpart” does exactly what you require: display the terms of the search results as a tree-like refiner. Additionally you can click on nodes and leafs to filter your search results.
You can download an evaluation copy of our product “Semantic Search Webparts” that include a set of very usefull webparts:Â http://www.diqa-pm.de/en/Semantic_Search_Webparts