Re: Creating a browse interface from ES

2014-06-25 Thread Robin Sheat
Op dinsdag 17 juni 2014 19:28:18 UTC+12 schreef Jörg Prante: > > If you can use the sort key of the term (internal java collation key or > ICU collation key) instead of absolute position number, there is no longer > the need to reindex. One advantage is that you can adjust the sort key to > th

Re: Creating a browse interface from ES

2014-06-16 Thread Robin Sheat
d then use the from/size stuff to bring up the list in that area. Is that essentially what you're using? If so, that seems like what I need. The only issue is that it'll require a total reindex every time something is added. But, I don't see a way around that even with some other ideas

Re: Creating a browse interface from ES

2014-06-15 Thread Robin Sheat
Op woensdag 11 juni 2014 20:11:39 UTC+12 schreef Jörg Prante: > > > The browsing UI you mean is a traditional instrument librarians are used > to when they want machines to sort and not to search. Here, it is called > "register search" but in fact it is a sorted list. Beside being a > traditiona

Creating a browse interface from ES

2014-06-10 Thread Robin Sheat
I am building a system that uses Elasticsearch to store and retrieve library catalogue data. One thing I've been asked for is a browse interface. Here's a definition of what this is: - The user does a search, for example "Author starts with" and they supply "Smith" - The system puts th