faceted searches - design question - facet field not part of qf search fields

[geeky2]

hello all,

this is more of a design / newbie question on how others combine faceted
search fields in to their requestHandlers.

say you have a request handler set up like below.

does it make sense (from a design perspective) to add a faceted search field
that is NOT part of the main search fields (itemNo, productType, brand) in
the qf param?

for example, augment the requestHandler below to include a faceted search on
itemDesc?

would this be confusing ? - to be searching across three fields - but
offering faceted suggestions on itemDesc?

just trying to understand how others approach this

thanks

  <requestHandler name="generalSearch" class="solr.SearchHandler"
default="false">
    <lst name="defaults">
      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
      <str name="echoParams">all</str>
      <int name="rows">10</int>
      <str name="qf">itemNo^1.0 productType^.8 brand^.5</str>
      <str name="q.alt">*:*</str>
    </lst>
    <lst name="appends">
     </lst>
    <lst name="invariants">
      <str name="facet">false</str>
    </lst>
  </requestHandler>



  


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