Setting up the faceted search feature

For faceted search to work, Content Delivery needs a properly configured Tridion Taxonomy Connector. You also need to extend the Content Deployer with a Taxonomy Add-on, which ships with Tridion Sites (not to be confused with the Taxonomy Connector).

Before you begin

Before performing this task, you must have set up and configured Tridion Taxonomy Connector for your environment. You will have already done this when you connected Content Manager to the external taxonomy provider. Specifically, you must have ensured the presence of a section for each Content Delivery environment, set to its name (the sample configuration contains two sections called staging and live, assuming that you'll have two Content Delivery environments, with those names). For example, if you have two environments foo and bar, the configuration must include the following fragment, enabling taxonomy indexing:
"foo": {
  "isEnabled": true
},
"bar": {
  "isEnabled": true
}

Procedure

  1. To add the Taxonomy Add-on to your Content Deployer, on your Tridion Sites installation media, go to Content Delivery\roles\deployer\add-ons\.
  2. Download the resource udp-deployer-taxonomy-extension-assembly-VERSION-search.zip, where VERSION is a string indicating the Content Delivery version and build version of this resource.
  3. Follow the instructions for uploading an Add-on to upload the ZIP file from the Add-ons screen.
  4. Start or restart Content Deployer to apply the changes you have made.

Results

The Taxonomy Add-on for the Content Deployer will have picked up the configuration settings from the Tridion Taxonomy Connector. Your faceted search feature is now ready to be implemented.

What to do next

You can add further concept schemes as needed at a later time.