Enabling search result grouping in Feature Pack 5

• The group section declares the result grouping field and parameter options. A limit parameter specifies the maximum number of results to return for each group. The default value is 1.

  For example, <_config:param name="limit" value="99"/>

• Then, list the field names by which to group results. This field must be single-valued, and either be indexed or a field type that has a value source and works in a function query. It must also be a string-based field.

  For example, <_config:field name="mfName_ntk_cs" />

• The following example is the final result of the sample configuration that you can add to your wc-search.xml search profile file:

  <_config:group > 
  	<_config:param name="limit" value="99"/> 
  	<_config:field name="mfName_ntk_cs" /> 
  </_config:group >

By using this result grouping configuration, each of the search results is tagged with a "groupname" and "groupvalue" in its metadata property. These two properties can be used at the storefront to group similar results together for display. Using the previous example, when grouping by brand name, a product of brand ABC is tagged with "groupname=mfName_ntk_cs" and "groupvalue=ABC". To retrieve this value, use JSP expression language. For example: ${catalogEntryView.metaData.groupname} or ${catalogEntryView.metaData.groupvalue}.