Thanks Indika, that looks good. I'll look at the article.
If anyone else has any good ideas please send them too.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Indika Tantrigoda <indik...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Dhanushka,
>
> Have you tried to use the filter query parameter.
> Check out this article, the Applying Constraints section should be helpful
> to you.
>
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Faceted-Search-Solr
>
> Solr Wiki link to filter query parameter
> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters#fq
>
> I am at the moment implementing a similar system where the user needs to
> drill down to the data.
> What I am doing now is say if the user selects "Chemistry" from the facet I
> request a query with
> the filter query applied to fDepartmentName and when the user selects "US
> Cancer/Diabetic Research Institute"
> from the fSponsor facet I will apply filter querying to both the
> fDepartmentName and fSponsor.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Indika
>
>
> On 29 March 2010 21:19, Dhanushka Samarakoon <dhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to perform a search based on keywords and then reduce the
>> result
>> set based on facets that user selects.
>> First query for a search would look like this.
>>
>>
>> http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=cancer+stem&version=2.2&wt=php&start=&rows=10&indent=on&qt=dismax&facet=on&facet.mincount=1&facet.field=fDepartmentName&facet.field=fInvestigatorName&facet.field=fSponsor&facet.date=DateAwarded&facet.date.start=2009-01-01T00:00:00Z&facet.date.end=2010-01-01T00:00:00Z&facet.date.gap=%2B1MONTH
>>
>> In the above query (as per dismax on the solr config file) it searches
>> multiple fields such as GrantTitle, DepartmentName, InvestigatorName,
>> etc...
>>
>> Then if user select 'Chemistry' from the facet field 'fDepartmentName'
>>  and
>> 'US Cancer/Diabetic Research Institute' from 'fSponsor' I need to reduce
>> the
>> result set above to only records from where fDepartmentName is 'Chemistry'
>> and 'fSponsor' is 'US Cancer/Diabetic Research Institute'
>> The following query is not working.
>> select/?q=cancer+stem+fDepartmentName:Chemistry+fSponsor:US
>> Cancer/Diabetic
>> Research Institute&version=2.2&
>>
>> Fields starting with 'f' are defined in the schema.xml as copy fields.
>>   <field name="DepartmentName" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"
>> multiValued="true" />
>>   <field name="fDepartmentName" type="string" indexed="true"
>> stored="false"
>> multiValued="true" />
>>   <copyField source="DepartmentName" dest="fDepartmentName"/>
>>
>> Any ideas on the correct syntax?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dhanushka.
>>
>
>

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