Thanks for the input. I'll take a look at haystack and see about integrating it with satchmo. I'll report back if I come up with anything interesting!
-Josh On Nov 12, 10:09 am, Alex Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO, haystack is definitely the way to go here. > > You can read about the faceting parts > here:http://docs.haystacksearch.org/dev/faceting.html > > It really is pretty easy to use. Setting up the solr backend can be a > little weird, but you can use other backends if it is too gross for > you. (It is in java). I've done some faceting like you are talking > about in a resource library application and it was surprising how easy > haystack made it. > > My experience is that haystack was really easy to use for faceting > type stuff. It made a newegg style interface possible and kind of fun. > However, it was a lot more difficult to use it as a full site search > solution. Then you start to run into the problems Stuart mentions, > with getting weighting right and stuff like that. Also, it can be > difficult to get all your content indexed. (Haystack likes models, it > doesn't work with information in templates as easily.) > > Alex > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Josh <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know that there have been threads on this before but I am curious of > > what the current status is. Here: > >http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/browse_thread/thread/d99... > > and > > here:http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/browse_thread/thread/6f7... > > Stuart Laughlin referenced that he was working on some sort of faceted > > search/navigation. I was wondering if anyone knows the status of that > > or maybe Stuart could comment? Has anyone else had experience or > > success with this? I think I'm going to take a whack at it and see > > what happens. > > > -Josh > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Satchmo users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
