Variant drawer - Fluid Topics - Latest

When content cannot be distinguished by the values of at least one metadata key or by the title of a document, Fluid Topics displays clustered results in a variant drawer.

Example

The following example shows four variants of the Time Machine User Guide:

Document title	Audience	Version
Introduction to Time Machines	Novice	1.0
Introduction to Time Machines	Expert	1.0
Introduction to Time Machines	Novice	2.0
Introduction to Time Machines	Expert	2.0

Since the Audience and Version metadata keys both have two possible values, neither can be used to distinguish variants. This is why Fluid Topics makes multiple facets available in a drawer that let users refine their search.

The Choose among x variants button appears in the Search page as follows:

The tags that appear under the title of the document provide an at-a-glance view of the document's metadata. Tags with dotted circles indicate that other values are available for this metadata key. In the example above, the Novice tag has a dotted circle because the Expert value is also available.

Selecting the Choose among x variants button opens the variant drawer as follows:

Where:

1. A list of all the variants of the book, article or topic matching the query.
2. The metadata keys and associated values shared by all the variants of the book, article or topic matching the query.
3. Filters to select metadata values that dynamically refine the results listed on the right.