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Funnelback for higher education results page configuration - shortlist and search history

This guide applies to the Squiz Experience Cloud version of Funnelback for higher education. See the v15.x Funnelback for higher education documentation for earlier releases.

The shortlist toggle allows a user to access the list of shortlisted results. It also displays the number of shortlisted results.

shortlist toggle

When toggled, the shortlist is displayed instead of the current search results:

shortlist

The search history toggle is used to get access to search and click history.

search history toggle

When toggled, past searches <1> and clicked results <2> are displayed instead of the current search results:

search history

Shortlist templates

Templates for the results shortlist also support the same dispatch mechanism as the search results so the shortlist can display different result types. The example results page only provides a shortlist template for courses:

shortlist template

The result type dispatch is also controlled via the results page configuration:

Results page configuration
stencils.template.shortlist.<DATA-SOURCE_ID>=<TEMPLATE-NAMESPACE>

# e.g.:
stencils.template.shortlist.higher-education-courses=courses

Adding a new result type for the shortlist works similarly as adding a regular result type template. Re-using the previous example of adding a template for a research collection name fbu-research:

  • Create a new file for your new result type, for example research.ftl. It’s likely such a file already exists as a template had to be written to display the result in the first place

  • Create a CartTemplate macro inside that file, and implement the template. Keep in mind that shortlist templates are handlebars templates and not FreeMarker ones (as used for the auto-completion template), and use a different syntax. Consult the CartTemplate macro from courses.ftl for an example.

  • Set stencils.template.shortlist.fbu-research=research in the results page configuration