Seems like pivot faceting is what you looking for ( http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters#Pivot_.28ie_Decision_Tree.29_Faceting )
Note: it currently does not work in distributed mode - see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2894 On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Jamie Johnson <jej2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry some more info. I have a field to store source and another for date. > I currently use faceting to get a temporal distribution across all > sources. What is the best way to get a temporal distribution per source? > Is the only thing I can do to execute 1 query for the list of sources and > then another query for each source? > > On Wednesday, November 14, 2012, Jamie Johnson <jej2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've recently been asked to be able to display a temporal facet broken > down by source, so source1 has the following temporal distribution, source > 2 has the following temporal distribution etc. I was wondering what the > best way to accomplish this is? My current thoughts were that I'd need to > execute a completely separate query for each, is this right? Could field > aliasing some how be used to execute this in a single request to solr? Any > thoughts would really be appreciated.