Hi Quentin, well stick in this thread, I will try to see how it works and get inputs from other people.
Here is the link to my blog who shows how to do it : http://www.victorkabdebon.net/archives/16 Note that I used Tomcat + SolR, but it can easily done with PHP. Also solrj in 1.4.1 didn't have terms component so I had to find a way around that problem but it's provided. 2011/4/15 Quentin Proust <q.pro...@gmail.com> > Hi Victor, > > I have the same questions about the new Suggest component. > I can't really help you as I didn't really manage to understand how it > worked. > Sometimes, I had more results, sometimes less. > > Even so, I would really be interested in your resources using Terms and > shingles to implement auto-complete. > I am myself a French student and it could help me improve the solution of > one of my project. > > Best regards, > Quentin > > 2011/4/15 openvictor Open <openvic...@gmail.com> > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > Recently I implemented an autocomplete mechanism for my website using a > > custom TermsComponent. I was quite happy with that because it also > enables > > me to do a Google-like feature where complete sentences where suggested > to > > the user when he typed in the search field. I used Shingles to search > > against pieces of sentences. > > (I have resources for French people if somebody asks) > > > > Then came solr 3.1 and its new suggest component. I have looked at the > > documentation but it's still unclear how it works exactly. So please let > me > > ask some questions : > > > > > > - Is there performance improvements over TermsComponent ? > > - Is it able to autosuggest sentences and not only words ? If yes, how > ? > > Should I keep my shingles ? > > - What is this "threshold" value that I see ? Is it a mandatory field > to > > complete ? I want to have suggestion no matter what the frequency is in > > the > > document ! > > > > > > Thank you all, if I succeed to do that I will try to provide a tutorial > to > > do what with Jquery UI autocomplete + Suggest component if anyone's > > interested. > > Best regards. > > > > Victor > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Quentin Proust > Email : q.pro...@gmail.com > Tel : 06.78.81.15.94 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/quentinproust > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >
