I think that what you want is FieldCollapsing: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldCollapsing
For example &q=my search&group=true&group.field=subject&group.limit=5 Test it to see if that is what you want. Thanks Emmanuel 2012/2/29 Paul <p...@nines.org>: > Let's say that I have a facet named 'subject' that contains one of: > physics, chemistry, psychology, mathematics, etc.... > > I'd like to do a search for the top 5 documents in each category. I > can do this with a separate search for each facet, but it seems like > there would a way to combine the search. Is there a way? > > That is, if the user searches for "my search", I can now search for it > with the facet of "physics" and rows=5, then do a separate search with > the facet of "chemistry", etc... > > Can I do that in one search to decrease the load on the server? Or, > when I do the first search, will the results be cached, so that the > rest of the searches are pretty cheap?
