Hi,
There are currently really only 2 options when you do Federation to other farms with each having their own index:- Federate results without 'interleaving' results into a single Search Result view. You don't need Result blocks for that, but you'll essentially have separate resultsets shown and not a uniform view.
- Use Result Blocks to unify and make it a single result view.
When using Result Blocks for federation purposes, you will only see Refiners for the local index. Refiners are not interleaved across local and remote indices. So if you want to user refiner for results from remote farm, you need to configure Fedrate Search without Result blocks.
For more information, please refer to the thread:
Best Regards,