On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just to be clear, as I'm not logged onto the dev server at the moment >> but it was implied in an earlier mail: Any field that is to be pivoted >> on needs to be a string field? Is that documented, as I cannot find >> that in the docs. > > No, it doesn't need to be a string field.... but whatever terms come out of > the analysis process are what gets faceted upon. If it was a "text" field, > each word in the field would be a facet value. A "trie" field probably > doesn't work properly, as it indexes multiple terms per value and you'd get > odd values. Pivot faceting was initially implemented only with textual > terms in mind, and string is generally the desired type. >
Thanks for the insight. I'll see how much time for experimentation I might afford. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com
