How to Group Search Results Based on Field Values

Field Collapsing enables you to group search results based on field values, keeping only one entry per group.

• Collapsing is performed by selecting only the top sorted document per collapse key.
• The Elastic backend currently supports only one level of collapsing.
  • For more details about collapsing see: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/search-request-collapse.html

How to Enable Collapsing for Your Search Results

1. Edit the Results.html page using a text editor.
   
   
2. On the body element add the data-collapse-specification property as shown in the graphic below:
   
   

How to Enable Collapsing for Your Content by Search Web Part

1. Edit the Results.html page using a text editor.
   
   
2. Locate your Content-by-Search <div> element and add the data-collapse-specification property like the one shown below.
   
   
3. Note that you can specify a different field for collapsing other than the one used for main results.