diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/search.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/search.js
index 617dfe62158..e63df3d7b9e 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/search.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/search.js
@@ -593,7 +593,10 @@ openerp.web.SearchView = openerp.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends openerp.web.Search
                 var context = field.get_context(facet);
                 if (context) {
                     contexts.push(context);
-                    groupbys.push(context);
+                }
+                var group_by = field.get_groupby(facet);
+                if (group_by) {
+                    groupbys.push.apply(groupbys, group_by);
                 }
             } catch (e) {
                 if (e instanceof openerp.web.search.Invalid) {
@@ -798,6 +801,10 @@ openerp.web.search.Input = openerp.web.search.Widget.extend( /** @lends openerp.
         throw new Error(
             "get_context not implemented for widget " + this.attrs.type);
     },
+    get_groupby: function () {
+        throw new Error(
+            "get_groupby not implemented for widget " + this.attrs.type);
+    },
     get_domain: function () {
         throw new Error(
             "get_domain not implemented for widget " + this.attrs.type);
@@ -865,6 +872,18 @@ openerp.web.search.FilterGroup = openerp.web.search.Input.extend(/** @lends open
             __contexts: contexts
         });
     },
+    /**
+     * Fetches group_by sequence for all enabled filters in the group
+     *
+     * @param {VS.model.SearchFacet} facet
+     * @return {Array} enabled filters in this group
+     */
+    get_groupby: function (facet) {
+        return  _(facet.get('json')).chain()
+            .map(function (filter) { return filter.attrs.context; })
+            .reject(_.isEmpty)
+            .value();
+    },
     /**
      * Handles domains-fetching for all the filters within it: groups them.
      *
@@ -948,7 +967,7 @@ openerp.web.search.Filter = openerp.web.search.Input.extend(/** @lends openerp.w
     },
     facet_for: function () { return $.when(null); },
     get_context: function () { },
-    get_domain: function () { }
+    get_domain: function () { },
 });
 openerp.web.search.Field = openerp.web.search.Input.extend( /** @lends openerp.web.search.Field# */ {
     template: 'SearchView.field',
@@ -989,6 +1008,7 @@ openerp.web.search.Field = openerp.web.search.Input.extend( /** @lends openerp.w
         return new openerp.web.CompoundContext(context)
                 .set_eval_context({self: val});
     },
+    get_groupby: function () { },
     /**
      * Function creating the returned domain for the field, override this
      * methods in children if you only need to customize the field's domain
diff --git a/doc/search-view.rst b/doc/search-view.rst
index c2f850175e0..89051884596 100644
--- a/doc/search-view.rst
+++ b/doc/search-view.rst
@@ -254,6 +254,12 @@ Widgets API
   :js:class:`~VS.model.SearchFacet` as parameter, from which it's
   their job to get whatever value they want
 
+* :js:func:`~openerp.web.search.Input.get_groupby` has been added. It returns
+  an :js:class:`Array` of context-like constructs. By default, it does not do
+  anything in :js:class:`~openerp.web.search.Field` and it returns the various
+  contexts of its enabled filters in
+  :js:class:`~openerp.web.search.FilterGroup`.
+
 Filters
 +++++++