Level 2 dot walking facets not visible

[Kunal Gangaher]

Hi Everyone,

Can someone please tell me if the level dot walking facets like kb_knowledge.kb_knowledge_base.active is supported as a facet on AI Search or not?

My instance is on Xanadu version.

Thanks 

[Dr Atul G- LNG]

Hi @Kunal Gangaher 

I think yes, it should be visible.
Do you have a screenshot of where and how you're trying to access it?

[Nilesh Pol]

@Kunal Gangaher no, AI Search in Xanadu only supports flat facets, not nested or dot-walked ones.

For example, knowledge category facets remain a flat structure.

However, for facet support, AI Search requires that fields be indexable and facetable—but only as top-level fields. There's no support for dynamically creating facets via dot-walked fields

[mujeebqasimi]

Hi,

Yes, you can use dot-walked fields like kb_knowledge.kb_knowledge_base.active as a facet in AI Search. The important part is that the dot-walked field has to be indexed first. Go into your Knowledge indexed source, add a field setting for dot_walk_fields with active on the kb_knowledge_base reference, then re-index.

Once that’s done, you can add the facet in your search application by pointing it to kb_knowledge_base.active. Boolean facets work fine for this. If you skip the indexing step, the facet won’t show up or you’ll run into errors when trying to use it.

Hope that helps.

~Mujeeb Qasimi

[Swapna Abburi]

Hi @Kunal Gangaher 

Yes, we can add dot-walk fields as facet fields in AI Search. since you are looking for "kb_knowledge.kb_knowledge_base.active", it's already mapped in the OOTB knowledge table index source. So you can directly add this dot-walk facet.

But, please be noted that each dot-walk reference level imposes a performance impact on indexing. Avoid using multi-level references unless necessary.