Regarding hi-jacking, that was a false alarm. Apple Mail fooled me to believe it was part of another thread. Sorry Jose.
I think the "properties" field approach is clean. It relies on index-time classification which is where such heavy-lifting should preferrably be done. Faceting on a multi-valued string field should work very well for this. -- Jan Høydahl - search architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com On 11. feb. 2010, at 01.47, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > : NOTE: Please start a new email thread for a new topic (See > : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DonDiego/Thread_hijacking) > > FWIW: I'm the most nit-picky person i know about Thread-Hijacking, but i > don't see any MIME headers to indicate that Jose did that). > > : > If i follow this path can i then facet on "email" and/or "link" ? For > : > example combining facet field with facet value params? > > Any indexed field can be faceted on ... it's hard to be sure what exactly > your goal is, but if you ultimately want to be able to have a list of > search results, and then display facet info like "Number of results > containing an email address" and "Number of results containing a URL" then > yes: as long as you have a way of extracting that metadata and including > it in an indexed field, you can facet on it ... you could use Field > Faceting on something like a "properities: field (where all the indexed > values are "contains_email" and "containes_url", etc...) or you could use > facet queries to check arbitrary criteria (ie: facet.query=has_email:true > & facet.query=urls:[* TO *], etc... > > > > -Hoss
