How do you show filters by default on search page

[Shannon Burns]

When you view the results on the kb_search page, it hides the filters by default. 

How do you get it to show the filters by default instead?  I reviewed the code for the knowledge search widget on that page and looked at the options, but I am obviously missing something.

Thanks,
Shannon

[art_jones]

I couldnt find a way to do this thru configuration either. I cloned the knowledge search widget and then added a new line to to link function directly below the showAndHideFilters function that calls the function when the page loads.

Regards, Art

[ecagle]

Thanks for this info!  After adding this line, the filters are displayed by default on the kb_search page, however, if I do a search - the filters are hidden when the search results are displayed.  Do you know of a way to get them to keep showing (until the user clicks to hide)?

[alexanderk]

If you remove this line from the modified "Knowledge Search" Widget's "Link Function" section:

c.hideFilters();

it should work

[SusanWinKY]

I was able to do this* with these changes...

1. On the Knowledge Search page, I added this to the page-specific CSS.  This forces the filter options to always display.
   
   .hide-filters { // replicates behavior of .show-filters
     display :block;
   }
   .expand-width { // replicates behavior of .original-width
     width :75%;
   }
   
   
2. On the Knowledge Search widget instance, I added this to the CSS.  This hides the toggle button for the filtering options.
   
   .filter-class{
     display: none;
   }

This not only forces the filters to display when the page initially loads, but also removes the option for the user to toggle on/off the filtering options. So the filters are always displayed. 

If you don't mind disabling the ability for users to toggle on/off the filtering options, I prefer this over customizing the widgets.