Thank you for both responses. Another question I have is where the processing of this "first letter" is more adequate. I am considering updating my data import handler to execute a script to extract the first letter from the author field.
I saw other thread when someone mentioned using a field analyser to extract the letter using a regex. Which one is the best option? Thanks! Alexandre On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com>wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> > wrote: > > I believe that should work fine in Solr 1.4.1. Creating a field with > just > > first letter of author is definitely the right (possibly only) way to > allow > > facetting on first letter of author's name. > > > > I have very voluminous facets (few facet values, many docs in each value) > > like that in my app too, works fine. > > > > I get confused over the different facetting methods available in 1.4.1, > and > > exactly when each is called for. If you see initial problems, you could > try > > switching the facet.method and see what happens. > > Right - for faceting on first letter, you should probably use > facet.method=enum > since there will only be 26 values (assuming english/western languages). > > In the future, I'm hoping we can come up with a smarter way to pick > the facet.method if it's not supplied. The new flex API in 4.0-dev > should help out here. > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com >
