Re: Faceted Hierarchal Navigation

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Runo
Runo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 1:26 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Faceted Hierarchal Navigation We were thinking of using SOLR simply because we'll end up navigating around the products via facets at some level - so why not just use it from the begi

RE: Faceted Hierarchal Navigation

2007-07-16 Thread Binkley, Peter
PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Faceted Hierarchal Navigation We were thinking of using SOLR simply because we'll end up navigating around the products via facets at some level - so why not just use it from the beginning. For example, if we build the category landing pages from

Re: Faceted Hierarchal Navigation

2007-07-16 Thread Corey Tisdale
I'm certainly not smart enough to look under the hood of SOLR, but from the one basic installation I've been messing with, it seems like the faceting is for non-hierarchical data only. I could be wrong, though. In my mind categories and facets are similar but distinct, like the category dictate

Re: Faceted Hierarchal Navigation

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Runo
We were thinking of using SOLR simply because we'll end up navigating around the products via facets at some level - so why not just use it from the beginning. For example, if we build the category landing pages from our DB, when the user clicks on a link, they'll get dumped into SOLR to vi

Re: Faceted Hierarchal Navigation

2007-07-16 Thread Corey Tisdale
So you want your category display to be controlled by SOLR? Why not keep the hierarchical structure of categories in a RDBMS, then keep the product index in SOLR? Corey On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Matthew Runo wrote: Hello! I was very surprised to find that this wasn't in the email archi

Faceted Hierarchal Navigation

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Runo
Hello! I was very surprised to find that this wasn't in the email archive for this list I'm wondering about the best way to provide hierarchal navigation using facets. For example, lets assume that I have products with department trees like: Footwear > Mens > Hiking > Waterproof (cou