You *could* do it by making one and only one solr document for each clothing item, then just have the front end render all the sizes and colors available for that item as size/color pickers on the product page. You can add all the colors and sized to the one document in the index so they are searchable also, but the caveat is that they won't show up as a facet. This is just one simple approach.
-----Original Message----- From: danjfoley [mailto:d...@micamedia.com] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 7:04 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: how to correctly facet clothing multiple sizes and colors? I've been searching for a solution to my issue, and this seems to come closest to it. But not exactly. I am indexing clothing. Each article of clothing comes in many sizes and colors, and can belong to any number of categories. For example take the following: I add 6 documents to solr as follows: product, color, size, category shirt A, red, small, valentines day shirt A, red, large, valentines day shirt A, blue, small, valentines day shirt A, blue, large, valentines day shirt A, green, small, valentines day shirt A, green, large, valentines day I'd like my facet counts to return as follows: color red (1) blue (1) green (1) size small (1) large (1) category valentines day (1) But they come back like this: color: red (2) blue (2) green (2) size: small (2) large (2) category valentines day (6) I see the group.facet parameter in version 4.0 does exactly this. However how can I make this happen now? There are all sorts of ecommerce systems out there that facet exactly how i'm asking. i thought solr is supposed to be the very best fastest search system, yet it doesn't seem to be able to facet correct for items with multiple values? Am i indexing my data wrong? how can i make this happen? -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/how-to-correctly-facet-clothing-multi ple-sizes-and-colors-tp3893747p3893747.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
