Hi, I am exploring faceting in SOLR in collection1 example Faceting fields are defined in solrconfig.xml under browse request handler which is used in in-built "VelocityResponseWriter" <requestHandler name="/browse" class="solr.SearchHandler"> ... <str name="facet">on</str> <str name="facet.field">cat</str> </requestHandler>
I think it is not at all mandatory to define facet fields in solrconfig.xml, right ? Instead we can directly use facet in query URLs... e.g. http:// <server>:8081/solr/mytestcollection/select?q=*:*&rows=0&facet=true&facet.field=item_id&facet.field=item_type&wt=json&indent=true Regards