Hmmm, MultiValues are guaranteed to be returned in the order they were inserted, so you might be able to do the linking yourself given the results.
But have you considered grouping (aka field collapsing) on the ISBN number? If you indexed each record uniquely, that might do what you need. Best Erick On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Tiernan OToole <lsmart...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right, not sure how to ask this question, what the terminology, but > hopefully my explaination will help... > > We are chucking data into solr for queries. i cant mention the exact data, > but the closest thing i can think of is as follows: > > > - Unique ID for the solr record (DB ID in this case) > - A not so unique ID (say an ISBN number) > - the name of the book (multiple names for this, each have a ISBN and a > unique DB ID) > - A Status of the book (books arent the correct term, but, say, a book > has 4 editions but keeps the ISBN, we would have 4 names in Solr, each > queryable. So, searching for the first edition title will return the > correct ISBN). > > Anyway, what i want to be able to do is search for a single title (say Solr > or Dummies) and find all instances of that title in index. but for each > name, i want to be able to link the status of each title with each one. > there are other "statuses" for each item also... > > Anyway, i had 2 ways of doing this: > > > - the first way was using multi values, storing the names in a multi > value list and also the statuses, but the linking dont seem to be working > correctly... > - the second way is storing each record uniqley, but with this i would > need to run a second query to get all records for the ISBN... > > Any ideas which one i should be using? any tips on this? > > Thanks. > > > -- > Tiernan O'Toole > blog.lotas-smartman.net > www.geekphotographer.com > www.tiernanotoole.ie >
