About collapsing and expanding refinements

When the Endeca Server computes refinements, it takes into account whether you want to expand or collapse the suggested refinements in the user interface.

The computation of available refinement values can be expensive, especially if there are many attributes defined on records in your data domain. In cases when the number of attributes is large, it is often not useful for a user interface to display values for every available attribute at once, because there would be too many options for users to consider.

To address this, the Endeca Server supports the notion of "expanding" and "collapsing" suggested refinements displayed in the user interface: