Hmmm, interesting solution. But, as I've discovered the field collapsing
feature recently (although I haven't tested it), can't it solve this
requirement?

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Avlesh Singh <avl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well you are talking about a very relational behavior, Tan.
> You can declare a "locations" and "location_*" field in your schema. While
> indexing a document, put all the locations inside the field "locations".
> Populate "location_state", "location_city" etc .. with their corresponding
> location values. That ways, when no filter is applied, you can facet on the
> "locations" field to get all the locations. In all other scenarios when a
> filter on field "foo" is applied, faceting on "location_foo" will give you
> the desired results.
>
> Cheers
> Avlesh
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:16 PM, R. Tan <tanrihae...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I can't because there are facet values for each location, such as
> > state/city/neighborhood and facilities. Example result is "7 Eleven", 100
> > locations when no location filters are applied, where there is a filter
> for
> > state, it should show "7 Eleven, 20 locations.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Aakash Dharmadhikari <aaka...@gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > can't you store the locations as part of the parent listing while
> > storing.
> > > This way there would be only one document per parent listing. And all
> the
> > > locations related information can be multi valued attributes per
> property
> > > or
> > > any other way depending on the attributes.
> > >
> > > 2009/9/3 R. Tan <tanrihae...@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > Hi Solrers,
> > > > I would like to get your opinion on how to best approach a search
> > > > requirement that I have. The scenario is I have a set of business
> > > listings
> > > > that may be group into one parent business (such as 7-eleven having
> > > several
> > > > locations). On the results page, I only want 7-eleven to show up once
> > but
> > > > also show how many locations matched the query (facet filtered by
> > state,
> > > > for
> > > > example) and maybe a preview of the some of the locations.
> > > >
> > > > Searching for the business name is straightforward but the locations
> > > within
> > > > the a result is quite tricky. I can do the opposite, searching for
> the
> > > > locations and faceting on business names, but it will still basically
> > be
> > > > the
> > > > same thing and repeat results with the same business name.
> > > >
> > > > Any advice?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > R
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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