Hello Tanguy,
I need pagination. The problem with your approach
is that, to achieve pagination, you need to do a sort at application level
for sorting rather than at the solr level which I think would become messy.
Do you see a way around this?
Thanks,
Karthick
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Tanguy Moal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Karthick,
>
> 2012/8/21 Karthick Duraisamy Soundararaj <[email protected]>
>
>> *"Find all the highest scoring document for each manufacuturer in the
>> current result set and place them ahead of the rest. Here as you can see,
>> the idea is to display one product from each unique manufacturer first"*.
>> Now to decide how many unique manufacturer to show before the normal
>> ordering can be determined relative to the total number of unique
>> manufacturers. Like for example, if there are 90 unique manufacturers,
>> display products from 45 (approx 50%) first before displaying the rest of
>> the products.
>>
>
> That's exactly what grouping will do. At least for the first sentence. You
> can ask for many items in each group, display only the first and store the
> others "somewhere", for later use. When you reach your "merchant
> representation threshold" (say 50% of total number of groups) then you can
> start picking the items you stored "somewhere" to display them at randomly
> chosen positions. That won't help pagination, though.
>
> Could that help you ?
>
