What if you were to set up a new field, which is the concatenation of your 'field' and 'category group', and then facet on that? How many combinations would we be talking about here? And - against what field(s) do you run your query?
We did something a bit similar, where we wanted an 'author' search, where 'author' is a field in our documents. We have a field set up based on 'author' to search against, as well as a field based on 'author' for faceting. We search against the author field, return 0 results but all the facet values, and then display the facet values with their counts, and when the users select one, then we issue a new query to return all documents with that author facet value. Bob Sandiford | Lead Software Engineer | SirsiDynix P: 800.288.8020 X6943 | bob.sandif...@sirsidynix.com www.sirsidynix.com > -----Original Message----- > From: lee carroll [mailto:lee.a.carr...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 5:47 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: difficult sort > > Is this possible in 1.4.1 > > Return a result set sorted by a field but within Categorical groups, > limited to 1 record per group > Something like: > group1 > xxx (bottom of sorted field within group) > group2 > xxx (bottom of sorted field within group) > etc > > is the only approach to issue multiple queries and collate in the > front end app ? > > cheers lee c
