On 17.05.2010, at 11:04, gwk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this applies to your use case but when I was building our > faceted search (see http://www.mysecondhome.co.uk/search.html) at first I > wanted to do the same, retrieve the minimum and maximum values but when I did > the few values that were a lot higher than the others made it almost > impossible to select a reasonable range. That's why I switched to a fixed > range of reasonable values with the last option being "anything higher". This > way the resultset is spread out pretty evenly over the length of the slider. > If the values over which you want to do range selection don't vary a lot I > think this is the best option, otherwise I guess you'll have to use another > solution. Maybe if the values do change a lot but not very often you could > generate new fixed range values after updating Solr. If you think something > like what I've made is useful to you, I'll be happy to answer any questions > about how I implemented this.
yeah .. i was thinking of this as a fallback approach. seems easy enough to implement and might be less confusing for the users. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith m...@pooteeweet.org
