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Add ability to show missing items in facets

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Created on 10 July 2025, 3 months ago

Problem/Motivation

We are in the process of switching our site's facets from blocks to Better Exposed Filters, which is a very welcome update. However, we are missing the ability to add a missing result with a customizable label.

Description of the functionality in the block-based format: Show missing - Add a facet item that counts and selects all search results which match the current query but do not belong to any of the facet items. Also has the ability to add "Label of missing items"

Our site is an image database, and in some contexts, browse-ability relies on a missing result. For example, to filter thousands of images to differentiate a general image of a building from an image with more specific details. We also rely on it for internal quality control views, to quite literally find missing items.

Many thanks to all

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

7.1

Component

User interface

Created by

lspeck

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  • Issue created by @lspeck
  • Comment 3 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Sounds like an issue for facets not bef.

  • Comment 3 months ago →
    lspeck

    The functionality already exists on facet blocks, but as their guidance is to move to BEF going forward, this functionality would be extremely helpful for our workflows. This is similar to the recently added soft limit feature -- see closed issue #3504532

  • Comment 3 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Right but that feature is generic to checkboxes in general and doesn't do any additional searches.

    Example BEF doesn't add the count next to each checkbox facets does that. So if this functionality sounds like it's only for search stuff and I still think probably in the facet plugins.

  • Comment 3 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Still maintain this is a facets feature

  • Comment about 2 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Would open an issue under the facets module.

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