Hi Anne,

The current "show more" behavior in the DSpace 7 search facets only displays 
the next 5 facets in order to ensure the performance is good.  Attempting to 
display 100s or even 1,000 facets after clicking "show more" would be extremely 
slow.

The intention of the search box under each facet was to do the same thing in an 
easier way.  It's supposed to allow you to quickly search for the facet you are 
looking for (rather than continually clicking "show more" or loading them all 
at once). And then allow you to select that facet quickly.  This was a redesign 
of the old 6.x behavior into 7.x, but the goal was the same.... you should be 
able to find even smaller facets quickly and us them to filter your results.

However, based on your feedback, it does appear that it's not doing exactly 
what users expect in this scenario...I agree with you that it should not 
require searching from the beginning of the facet text.  I'd consider this a 
bug. Maybe you could create a ticket with thoughts on how to improve the 
behavior? https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues

Regarding the checkbox display.. I'm not seeing that behavior in Google Chrome 
(it appears aligned at the top).  I wonder if this is a browser specific bug?  
If so, I'd recommend creating a ticket for this as well, and list the browser 
you are using so we can retest in that same browser.

Thanks for the feedback.  In general, we do welcome creating bug tickets or 
usability tickets (or comment on other's tickets if you hit the same issue as 
someone else).  Generally, the more an issue is mentioned or commented on, the 
more developers become aware that this is a common problem for many/most sites 
& the higher priority it'll get.  The opposite is also true, when a 
bug/usability issue is not​ reported into our issues list, it's highly unlikely 
anything will get done as it's simply not tracked in the system.

Thanks again,

Tim

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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2022 5:16 PM
To: DSpace Community <[email protected]>
Subject: [dspace-community] DSpace 7 facets?

Our repository, VTechWorks, runs DSpace 6.3 XMLU and serves our comprehensive 
university with over 100 departments and programs. We provide a Department 
facet for our ETD collection, 
https://www.lyrasis.org/programs/Pages/DSpace.aspx. If the patron selects "View 
more..." in that facet, they will be presented an alphabetical list of all 
department and programs, from which they can select the program or department 
of interest.

The ETD collection in the Iowa State University repository running DSpace 7.3, 
https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/collections/0830d32e-14e1-4a4f-bb8f-271a75ed35af?scope=0830d32e-14e1-4a4f-bb8f-271a75ed35af,
 also offers a Department facet. However, if one clicks, "Show more," they are 
presented 5 more options in that facet list. It seems impossible with this 
presentation to ever get to less popular programs such as Fisheries. Is there 
the possibility of having the current DSpace 6 XMLUI behavior to allow the full 
list of options? Not only is it simpler for our patrons, we use this 
functionality extensively to manage our content, for instance using the Content 
Type facet to list all content types to correct outliers. Is this functionality 
planned for a future versions of DSpace 7? If not, have others thought how they 
might provide this functionality?

I also tried the search box within that facet. That seems to find the first 
word of a department but not subsequent words, for example listing a match for 
Physics but not Astronomy for the department, "Physics and Astronomy."

One final observation about the facets is that the check box for each option 
seems to be vertically centered on each option. This is fine for single lines 
but is confusing for multi-line options such as Civil, Construction, and 
Environmental Engineering. I propose putting the check box inline with the 
first word of each option.

Thanks,

Anne

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