On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Germán Biozzoli <germanbiozz...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello everybody > > I think that is a dumb question, but I can't find the way to obtain > some facets without an specific query, what I need is what is > implemented for instance in blacklight's OPAC, a first screen that > shows most common document types, most common subjects, most common > etc. I'm planning to use it for exploring the collection, or could > also use the most frequent subjects for making a dynamic tag cloud. > I've seen one answer that points to use luke'sLucene index > administration tool, but it seems to me something like violating the > Solr "box". > > Should I make a broad query like q=* and obtaining the facets? It's > seems very expensive, isn't it? > > Thanks a lot for the help. > Germán > Use *:* as your query, and have 0 rows returned. That shouldn't really be any more expensive than faceting on any other query. -- Stephen Duncan Jr www.stephenduncanjr.com
