My group within MarkLogic is moving to using AngularJS for the front-end code of our MarkLogic applications. One of the things I like about AngularJS is how many directives are already out there, and thus available for us to use in MarkLogic-driven web applications.
Of course, not everything is already out there, and I want to make it as easy as possible to write new apps. I took the facets directive I’d built for the Demo Cat application, gave it its own GitHub repo, and registered it as a Bower plugin. You can now add the plugin to your application (“bower install ml-facets”) and then setting up facets is pretty straightforward:
You tell the directive where the facet values and the selected facets will be, and tell it what functions to call when a facet is clicked or cleared. The mlFacets repo includes an example use, complete with a simple Controller. You can also see how Demo Cat is using the directive to see it in a more detailed setting. This directive is useful for MarkLogic, but not dependent on it.
The plugin is brand new; I’m open to feedback on how to improve it. I’ll also be looking for other re-usable pieces that we can put in bower, and at some point I’ll work with Paxton to include this and some other bits in his yeoman generator for MarkLogic.
Thank you , for sharing your wonderful knowlegde and experience. I often refer to your blog ,when ever i have confusion regarding ML. Its always a great help.
Hello David, Thank you for shared all your knowledge here, I was thinking if you know what is the best solution to do a Properties Facet Search. I will really appreciate if you could give any advice about this topic. Thanks again.
Fabian, properties constraints are supported out of the box, but the docs say that you can only make a constraint, not a search. Since you’re asking on a facets blog post, I’m guessing you’d like to do a facet. My email is on the About page; if you send me more specifics about what you’re trying to do, I might have some ideas.