Hi all, I've been using Solr for the last few projects and the experience has been great. I'll post the link to the website once it finishes. Just have a few questions regarding synonyms and parameters encoding:
1) Is multi-word synonyms possible now in Solr? For example, can I have things like synonyms like: "I.T. & T", "IT & T", "Information Technologies", "Computer science" I read the message on mailing list sometime ago (think back in mid 2006) saying that there is no clean way to implement this. Is it possible now? In my case, I have two field category and location in which category is of default string type and location is of default text type: +Category field is used only for faceting by category therefore, no anylasis needs to be done. Can I use the synonyms config above to do facet query on category field and the Solr will combine items having one of these category into one facet category? For example: I.T. & T (10) IT & T (20) Information Technologies (30) Computer science (40) Can I have something like: I.T. & T (100) Or do I have to manually filter query on for each category:"I.T. & T" and count the results? +Location field is used for searching by city, state and post code. Since I collect the data from different sources, there might be mix & match information. For example, on one record I might have "Inner Sydney, NSW" while the other record I might have "Inner Sydney, New South Wales". In Australia, NSW & New South Wales are interchangeable used so when the users search for "NSW", I want "New South Wales" record to be returned and vice versa. How could I achieve this? The "location" field is of the default text type. 2) I'm having trouble with using facet values in my url. For example, I have "title" facet field in my query and it returns something like: Software engineer C++ Programmer C Programmer & PHP developer Now I want create a link for each of these value so that the user can filter the results by that title by clicking on the link. For example, if I click on "Software Engineer", the results are now narrowed down to just include records with "Software Engineer" in their title. Since "title" field can contain special chars like '+', '&' ..., I really can't find a clean way to do this. At the moment, I replace all the space by '+' and it seems to work for words like "Software engineer" (converted to "Software+Engineer"). However, "C++ Programmer" is converted to "C+++Programmer", and it doesn't seem to work (return no results). Any ideas? Looking back, this is such a long email. If you reach this point, thanks a lot for your time!!! -- Regards, Cuong Hoang
