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Another example: Using the standard search, a user would search for something like [wetland + "dc.author=Mitsch, William J" + dc.subject="water quality" ]. With filtered search, they can start by searching for [wetland ], and then filter the results by the other attributes, author and subject.

Discovery

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Changelist

DSpace 1.7 

• Sidebar browse facets that can be configured to use contents from any metadata field
  
  • Dynamically generated timespans for dates
• Customizable "recent submissions" view on the repository homepage, collection and community pages
• Hit highlighting & search snippets

DSpace 1.

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• Configuration moved from dspace.cfg into config/modules/discovery.cfg and config/spring/api/discovery.xml
• Individual communities and collections can have their own Discovery configuration.
• Tokenization for Auto-complete values (see SearchFilter)
• Alphanumeric sorting for Sidebarfacets
• Possibility to avoid indexation of specific metadata fields.
• Grouping of multiple metadata fields under the same SidebarFacet

DSpace 3

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• Hit highlighting and search snippets support
• "More like this" (related items)

Bugfixes and other changes

• Auto-complete functionality has been removed in XMLUI from search queries due to performance issues. JSPUI still supports auto-complete functionality without performance issues.

Enabling Discovery

You can independently enable Discovery for XMLUI or JSPUI. Follow the steps below.

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• The list of applicable sidebarFacets
• The list of applicable searchFilters
• The list of applicable searchSortFields
• Any default filter queries (optional)
• The configuration for the Recent submissions display

Configuring lists of sidebarFacets and searchFilters

Below is an example of how one of these lists can be configured. It's important that each of the bean references corresponds to the exact name of the earlier defined facets, filters or sort options.

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