When you have a FUSE content
visualization that's displaying search
results, the sort order is determined by
the ranking score assigned based on the
keyword(s)
passed to the search resultset.
FUSE shows the results in descending
score order.
What happens, however, if you're
using FUSE to visualize content outside of a
search situation?
In scenarios like this, when no
keywords are passed, most results have the
same score so FUSE doesn't know what
order
to show results in.
Think of this scenario: what would happen if you did a blank Google search? What should show first in the results?
For customers that desire a
uniform
sort without keywords applied, FUSE can
add a
secondary sort, usually using the content
item's ID. As a result, FUSE first
sorts by score descending then by ID
ascending.
This forces the results to display
in the same order each time.
If you haven't already, you'll want
to work with FUSE to weigh certain results so
we can ensure what's most important shows
first in these scenarios. For example: ...videos should be weighed 3x and podcasts
2x over other
items; mike_wilcomb_presentation.pdf
should show on Page 1 always; most
recent 'last edited date' should be
favored...
Without keywords being passed, the
ranking order in which content items get
returned is random.