Re: faceted searches - design question - facet field not part of qf search fields
thank you BOTH, Erick and Hos for the insight. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/faceted-searches-design-question-facet-field-not-part-of-qf-search-fields-tp3936509p3938080.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
faceted searches - design question - facet field not part of qf search fields
hello all, this is more of a design / newbie question on how others combine faceted search fields in to their requestHandlers. say you have a request handler set up like below. does it make sense (from a design perspective) to add a faceted search field that is NOT part of the main search fields (itemNo, productType, brand) in the qf param? for example, augment the requestHandler below to include a faceted search on itemDesc? would this be confusing ? - to be searching across three fields - but offering faceted suggestions on itemDesc? just trying to understand how others approach this thanks requestHandler name=generalSearch class=solr.SearchHandler default=false lst name=defaults str name=defTypeedismax/str str name=echoParamsall/str int name=rows10/int str name=qfitemNo^1.0 productType^.8 brand^.5/str str name=q.alt*:*/str /lst lst name=appends /lst lst name=invariants str name=facetfalse/str /lst /requestHandler -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/faceted-searches-design-question-facet-field-not-part-of-qf-search-fields-tp3936509p3936509.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: faceted searches - design question - facet field not part of qf search fields
No problem here at all, it's done all the time. Consider a popular facet series in the last day, in the last week, in the last month... There's no reason you have to facet on the fields that are searched on. The user as search terms like my dog has fleas and your query looks like q=my dog has fleasfq=timestamp:[NOW/DAY TO NOW/DAY+1DAY] and the user sees all documents with those terms added since midnight last night. No confusion at all... Best Erick On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM, geeky2 gee...@hotmail.com wrote: hello all, this is more of a design / newbie question on how others combine faceted search fields in to their requestHandlers. say you have a request handler set up like below. does it make sense (from a design perspective) to add a faceted search field that is NOT part of the main search fields (itemNo, productType, brand) in the qf param? for example, augment the requestHandler below to include a faceted search on itemDesc? would this be confusing ? - to be searching across three fields - but offering faceted suggestions on itemDesc? just trying to understand how others approach this thanks requestHandler name=generalSearch class=solr.SearchHandler default=false lst name=defaults str name=defTypeedismax/str str name=echoParamsall/str int name=rows10/int str name=qfitemNo^1.0 productType^.8 brand^.5/str str name=q.alt*:*/str /lst lst name=appends /lst lst name=invariants str name=facetfalse/str /lst /requestHandler -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/faceted-searches-design-question-facet-field-not-part-of-qf-search-fields-tp3936509p3936509.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: faceted searches - design question - facet field not part of qf search fields
: : The user as search terms like my dog has fleas and your query : looks like : q=my dog has fleasfq=timestamp:[NOW/DAY TO NOW/DAY+1DAY] : and the user sees all documents with those terms added since midnight : last night. No confusion at all... right ... wether the facets are useful or confusing has nothing to do with wether the fields are in your qf ... what matters is what you *do* with those facet counts once you have them. if you over the user the ability to filter on a constraint (which is what most people do with facet info) then as long as you generate that filter using hte same field, as an fq, then everything should make sense. if instead you just try to add the constraint to your main q query string, as an additional clause, then that is likely to make no sense at all, since the terms from your facet field may not have any bearing on the fields you are querying against. -Hoss
