On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Andrew Ingram <a...@andrewingram.net> wrote: >> Basically, a product has two price values and a date, the product >> effectively has one price before the date and the other one after. >> This poses no problem for the site itself since I can use conditional >> logic, but I have no idea how to approach this with regards to solr >> queries. >> >> The price of a product is used for both faceting and sorting and >> should use whichever price is active at the time of the query. Is >> there any way to do define a field whose value is a simple algorithm >> operating on the value of other fields? > > Sort of - function queries. > > We don't have any conditional function queries yet, but that's easy. > You can't yet sort by a function query, but we should fix that. > You can't yet facet on a function query, but we should fix that too.
+1 we should fix this > > Short term, Erick's index the doc twice idea may be best. > Long term, out-of-the-box functionality after volunteers help develop > out the function query approach :-) Ericks's idea is the simplest for now. Good one > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
