Thanks Peter. That will be my work-around, but I was hoping to find a more elegant solution ;) I am not that knowledgeable about the solr architecture but if there is a way it can be done in a more elegant way I might be willing to put the extra time to code it..
Binkley, Peter wrote: > > Faceting works on the terms in an index, so you can't get information > beyond those terms without doing extra work. You could build an extra > index used only for faceting that concatenates the information you need > from other fields, and then parse it out in your application: e.g. > "Tolkien, J.R.R.|35421". > > If you're doing this so that you can do precise follow-on searches, > though (where a user clicks on a link in a list of facets), you might > want to think about whether the author name gives you everything you > need. You may have two authors with the same name, who would show up as > a single facet if you don't tack the id on; but even if you do, how is > the user going to distinguish them? They'll just see two links, maybe > with opaque id numbers. So maybe the bare author name is good enough. (I > had a similar situation and found that getting away from a > relational-database approach and going with what Solr does best was the > best solution). > > Hope that helps, > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cric Digs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 7:36 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Faceting question > > lol I agree with you Hoss - sorry for that > > Here's the thing: > I need additional information from the index - such as the id related to > a facet field. For example, say I am faceting on author names for a book > store, I would also like to get the author id along with the author name > to show a link (next to the author name) to say the author's bio page. > The author id is stored in the index but how do i get that back with the > facet results? > > > On 9/20/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> : I'm using faceting to get some results. I also want to get another >> field >> - >> : the id field along with it. Is it possible to get that somehow in >> the facet >> : results? >> >> you're going to have to elaborate on what it is you are trying to do >> ... i genuinely have no idea what you are asking (and i think i'm >> usually pretty good at reading between the lines and guessing what > people mean). >> >> >> >> -Hoss >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Faceting-question-tf4489342.html#a12824623 Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
