That looks promising... Will look into that a bit more. --Tiernan
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > -- Tiernan O'Toole blog.lotas-smartman.net www.geekphotographer.com www.tiernanotoole.ie
