Instantsearch.js: MenuSelect max limit of 1000?

Created on 26 Jul 2018  路  7Comments  路  Source: algolia/instantsearch.js

Describe the bug 馃悰
We have a menuSelect widget with a limit of 10000, but it appears that 1000 is the max (although I couldn't find it documented anywhere)

Expected behavior 馃挱
I would expect it to respect whatever value passed into the limit option.

Environment:

  • OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.5
  • Browser: chrome
  • Version: 67.0.3396.99
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With this big of a number, searchable on the normal Menu widget would make more sense IMO. Then you can use the connector to make it into a <select> again quite easily.

You can try changing the maxValuesPerFacet (doc) option in the settings of the index, but it could also be an API limitation.

I'd like to see what kind of UI you're making where it makes sense to have 10k items in a single <select>

Haroenv picture Haroenv on 27 Jul 2018

Hi @davist11 and thanks for opening this issue. Facets are actually limited to 1000 elements https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/maxValuesPerFacet/?language=javascript#how-to-use

From there, as @Haroenv said, the best would be to have a search in those values. 10k is a lot of values for a user to browse, and it's a lot of data to send on the network too (which makes the reactivity worse). With a search, you can have less values and still let your user access all of them.

The current problem is that menu (or menu select) does not support searchable / search for facet values. But the refinement list does, can you try with that widget and see if it could fit what you want?

bobylito picture bobylito on 27 Jul 2018
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It's actually not 10k, it's slightly over the 1000 limit, but I was trying to bump it so that we could never run into the problem again. Sounds like we should really go back and figure out the UX potentially for such a large filter.

davist11 picture davist11 on 27 Jul 2018

Ok let us know if we can be of any help here.

Can I close this issue? @davist11

bobylito picture bobylito on 27 Jul 2018

If there is no plan to increase the limit, then yup.

davist11 picture davist11 on 27 Jul 2018

If there is no plan to increase the limit, then yup.

The limit is on the engine side. I'm asking :)

bobylito picture bobylito on 27 Jul 2018

No plan at the moment, but we did provide the feedback to them :)

bobylito picture bobylito on 27 Jul 2018
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