Anybody using it on public site? Would love to see some live examples.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:50 AM, R. Tan <tanrihae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay. Thanks for giving an insight on how it works in general. Without
> trying it myself, are the field values for the collapsed ones also part of
> the results data?
> What is the latest build that is safe to use on a production environment?
> I'd probably go for that and use field collapsing.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Uri Boness <ubon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The collapsed documents are represented by one "master" document which can
>> be part of the normal search result (the doc list), so pagination just works
>> as expected, meaning taking only the returned documents in account (ignoring
>> the collapsed ones). As for the scoring, the "master" document is actually
>> the document with the highest score in the collapsed group.
>>
>> As for Solr 1.3 compatibility... well... it's very hart to tell. All
>> latest patch are certainly *not* 1.3 compatible (I think they're also
>> depending on some changes in lucene which are not available for solr 1.3). I
>> guess you'll have to try some of the old patches, but I'm not sure about
>> their stability.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Uri
>>
>>
>> R. Tan wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Uri. How does paging and scoring work when using field collapsing?
>>> What patch works with 1.3? Is it production ready?
>>>
>>> R
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Uri Boness <ubon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The development on this patch is quite active. It works well for single
>>>> solr instance, but distributed search (ie. shards) is not yet supported.
>>>> Using this page you can group search results based on a specific field.
>>>> There are two flavors of field collapsing - adjacent and non-adjacent,
>>>> the
>>>> former collapses only document which happen to be located next to each
>>>> other
>>>> in the otherwise-non-collapsed results set. The later (the non-adjacent)
>>>> one
>>>> collapses all documents with the same field value (regardless of their
>>>> position in the otherwise-non-collapsed results set). Note, that
>>>> non-adjacent performs better than adjacent one. There's currently
>>>> discussion
>>>> to extend this support so in addition to collapsing the documents, extra
>>>> information will be returned for the collapsed documents (see the
>>>> discussion
>>>> on the issue page).
>>>>
>>>> Uri
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> R. Tan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I think this is what I'm looking for. What is the status of this patch?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, R. Tan <tanrihae...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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