# Setting the Guided Navigation configuration options

This topic describes the high-level steps involved in configuring the Guided Navigation component.

Before configuring type-ahead suggestions, dimension search wildcarding must be enabled in the MDEX Engine.

The Guided Navigation component is configured via its configuration menu:

To set the Guided Navigation configuration options:

1. After adding a Guided Navigation component to a page, click its .... button.

2. Click Preferences.

3. Select from the available data sources in the drop-down list, and then click Update data source to bind your selection to the component.

4. In the Configuration Options panel, check Enable type-ahead to enable the type-ahead search box for attributes with many values. When enabling this feature, make sure that your attributes have been configured to be wildcard searchable.

5. In the Maximum type-ahead suggestions field, set the maximum total number of type-ahead suggestions the MDEX Engine will offer. If fewer results are available, the number returned will be less than this maximum.

6. In the Maximum values to show in a single attribute field, set the maximum number of values per attribute to be displayed. This can help prevent your end users from being overwhelmed by an excessive number of results.

7. Check the Enable automatic attribute updates in end user view box if you want the end user's view to automatically reflect attribute changes in the MDEX Engine and in the Attribute Settings component.

8. In the Target page field, set the target page for any page transition. Page transitions allow a component on one page in your Discovery Framework application to pass data to a component on another page.

9. You can configure the Attribute list now. Details are provided in the next topic.
10. Click Save Preferences to save your changes.