Endeca standard and managed attributes are known as
refinements. Refinements can be used for navigation and search
— when you select a specific refinement, you refine your result set.
Refinements contain refinement attribute values for the current record
set. The attribute values for refinements are derived from both standard and
managed attributes.
Standard and managed attributes are similar in
that they both:
- Support navigation.
- Are usually generated from a
record’s source attributes.
- Consist of key/value pairs
(standard attribute name/standard attribute value, managed attribute
name/managed attribute value).
- Can be searched and
displayed using their display names.
- Can have a multi-level
hierarchy.