The smart navigation feature requires that Federated Search Services is installed on Content Server. With smart navigation, results are not only displayed in the content pane, but are also grouped into clusters of related results in the navigation pane. Smart navigation is enabled in the Documentum Administrator preferences, as described in Setting search preferences.

A cluster is created when enough results are available to compute the cluster. As soon as enough results are available, a first set of clusters is displayed. To refresh the Smart Navigation list with new results, click . The icon appears when new results are available.