Proposal: An updated hierarchical facets behaviour

[vvo]

Disjunctive facet behaviour

When using a menu in React InstantSearch (based on a disjunctive facet), we get this behaviour:

Steps to reproduce:

• Load the Menu story
• Click on Lighting
• Type/search "boholmen"

Expected result: even if lightning has 0 matching items, other categories are here to give context about results.

Actual result: exactly the expected result

Hierarchical facet behaviour

When using a hierarchical menu in React InstantSearch (based on a hierarchical facet), we get this behaviour:

Steps to reproduce:

• Load the HierarchicalMenu story
• Click on Lighting
• Type/search "boholmen"

Expected result: even if lightning has 0 matching items, other categories are here to give context about results.

Actual result: the widget is disappearing because we are not searching in other facets

This behaviour impacts all InstantSearch flavours.

Should we try to fix that? I believe yes if doable. This would be a "breaking change" but since the new behaviour would be better in term of user experience, that should be considered as minor.

[sreidaf]

Hi - any update on this ticket, or workaround ?