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Hi Scott, At this point, there is not an ability in the external SDK to suppress a plugin based on the presence a certain facet or attributes of a certain facet, or based on the manner in which the identification was made (i.e. barcode scan vs image match vs audio match). Firefly will always return both a BarcodeFacet and ProductDetailsFacet if a product is scanned, either by image match or barcode match or audio match. If that product is a book or music or video, those facets will be added as well. If the user scanned by barcode, and there is no corresponding product in the amazon catalog, then only the BarcodeFacet will be returned. This can be used to help reduce the times when the label is clickable in the current SDK level: For the current SDK level, you should return null from your plugin component when the plugin is not relevant, and the entry will show with a non-clickable label that indicates the plugin has no results. For example, you could add an optional clause to their DigitalEntityFilter to optionally select MUSIC | BOOK | VIDEO facets, and then return null from your resolver if that facet exists (i.e. if the identified item was a book). I.e. // in Plugin class public DigitalEntityFilter() { DigitalEntityFilter deFilter = new DigitalEntityFilter() deFilter.addRequiredFacets(FacetType.BARCODE); deFilter.addOptionalFacets(FacetType.MUSIC, FacetType.BOOK, FacetType.MUSIC); return deFilter; } // in resolver class public Facet resolve() { DigitalEntity de = getDigitalEntity(); if (de.getFacet(FacetType.MUSIC) != null || de.getFacet(FacetType.BOOK) != null || de.getFacet(FacetType.VIDEO != null)) { //return null as this is not an identification we are relevant for return null; } …. } Similarly, you could addOptionalFacet(FacetType.PRODUCT), and do fine grained filtering based on the Department enum returned from ProductDetailsFacet.getDepartment(), returning null in your plugin component if the department is not relevant.