Solr grouping / facet query

2012-07-18 Thread s215903406
Could anyone suggest the options available to handle the following situation: 1. Say we have 1,000 authors 2. 65% of these authors have 10-100 titles they authored; the others have not authored any titles but provide only their biography and writing capability. 3. We want to search for authors,

Re: Solr grouping / facet query

2012-07-19 Thread s215903406
Thanks for the reply. To clarify, the idea is to search for authors with certain specialties (eg. political, horror, etc.) and if they have any published titles relevant to the user's query, then display those titles next to the author's name. At first, I thought it would be great to have all t

RE: Solr grouping / facet query

2012-07-21 Thread s215903406
Thanks for the reply Robi. The key idea is to "search for authors" including text in their bio and any authored titles then display any relevant titles next to the author's name. Currently, the only way to do this is index by title and include the bio data in each document then group by author. Thi