Display or Hide the Contents Bar

Contents Bar is the horizontal strip at the top of search results.

Fig. A snapshot of the Content Tabs on a search clients.

It is configurable from Contents Tab in Set Default Preferences. The available settings are:

  • Display Content Tabs: enables or disables the Contents Bar (enabled by default).

  • Content Sources Indices: reveals content sources in the Contents Bar.

  • Sources Facet: reveals content objects in the Contents Bar.

  • Create New Content Tab: merge two or more content sources or content objects into one tab.

Each setting is described in detail below.

Display content tabs

Content tabs are visible by default. To hide them, toggle off Display content tabs and click Save.

  1. Each search client has its own Contents Bar. To display the bar for a client, open that client for editing from Search Clients, go to Content Sources, and click Set Default Preferences.

  1. Toggle on Hide Content Source with Minimum Document Count to remove content tabs that have no results. Example: If a user searches for [data] and Content Source A has three documents, Content Source B has five, and Content Source C has none, the Content Source C tab will be hidden when this setting is enabled.

  2. Then toggle on Display Content Tabs and click Save.

Content sources indices

The Contents Bar hosts content sources (indices) by default.

  1. Each search client has its own Contents Bar. To display the bar for a client, open that client for editing from Search Clients, go to Content Sources, and click Set Default Preferences.

  1. Toggle on Display Content Tabs.
  2. Click Save to display a Contents Bar with content sources.

Result

Fig. The content sources are displayed in the Content Bar by default.

Sources facets

You can display content objects (instead of content sources) in the Contents Bar.

  1. Each search client has its own Contents Bar. To display the bar for a client, open that client for editing from Search Clients, go to Content Sources, and click Set Default Preferences.

  1. Toggle on Display Content Tabs.

  2. Select Sources Facets.

  3. Click Save.

Result

Fig. The content source objects (Source Facets) are displayed in the Contents Bar.

Create New Content Tab

Clicking a tab on the Contents Bar filters results. For example, clicking "Java Tutorials" limits results to that content source. When a user clicks a tab, all previously selected filters are cleared. Search clients do this to avoid "No Results" searches, which harm the overall search experience. A user's query combined with a selected filter may not always return relevant results within a specific content tab.

Fig. A snapshot of the Contents Bar on a search client.

Create New Content Tab lets admins merge two or more tabs on the Contents Bar. For example, merge "SearchUnify Blogs" and "Java Tutorials" into a new tab named "Blogs and Tutorials".

  1. Each search client has its own Contents Bar. To display the bar for a client, open that client for editing from Search Clients, go to Content Sources, and click Set Default Preferences.

  1. Toggle on Display Content Tabs.
  2. Click Create New Content Tab.
  3. Check two or more content sources for merging.

  4. Click Merge Selected.

  5. A dialog with a warning pops up. Click Continue. By clicking Continue, you are overriding user bookmarks.

  6. In Name Your Tab, enter the new tab name.

  7. Select Yes or No for Show Child. When Show Child is Yes, the original tabs remain accessible. When Show Child is No, the original tabs disappear.

  8. Click Save.

 

Result

When Show Child is Yes, the old tabs are accessible.

When Show Child is No, old tab disappear completely.

Fig. A snapshot of the search clients when "Show Child" is turned on and off.