On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > I believe that should work fine in Solr 1.4.1. Creating a field with just > first letter of author is definitely the right (possibly only) way to allow > facetting on first letter of author's name. > > I have very voluminous facets (few facet values, many docs in each value) > like that in my app too, works fine. > > I get confused over the different facetting methods available in 1.4.1, and > exactly when each is called for. If you see initial problems, you could try > switching the facet.method and see what happens.
Right - for faceting on first letter, you should probably use facet.method=enum since there will only be 26 values (assuming english/western languages). In the future, I'm hoping we can come up with a smarter way to pick the facet.method if it's not supplied. The new flex API in 4.0-dev should help out here. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
