Hi Jonathan, I think this is the best article related to faceted search.
http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Faceted-Search-Solr On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <jvana...@2xlp.com> wrote: > i've gone through the official docs a few times, and then found some > offsite stuff of varying quality regarding how-tos. > > can anyone here recommend either howtos/tutorials or sample applications > that they have found worthwhile ? > > specifically i'm looking to do the following: > > - with regular searching, query the system with a single term, and > have solr search multiple fields - each one having a different weight In order to search into multiple fields and have a different weight for each of them, you could use the Dismax requesthandler and boost each field. - use dismax - boost weights of each field using bq parameter &bq=foofield:term^0.5 http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler#head-6862070cf279d9a09bdab971309135c7aea22fb3 > > - implement faceted browsing > > i know this is quite easy to do with solr, i'm just not seeing docs that > resonate with me yet. > > thanks! Cheers, Michel
