The documents are individual products which come from 1 or more vendors. Example: a 'toy spiderman doll' is sold by 2 vendors, that is 1 document. Most fields are multi valued (short_description from each of the 2 vendors, long_description, product_name, vendor, etc. the same).
I'd like to collapse on the vendor in an attempt to ensure that vast collections of books, music, and movies, by just a few vendors, don't overwhelm the results simply due to the fact that they have every search term imaginable due to the sheer volume of books, CDs, and DVDs, in relation to other product items. But in this case there is clearly 1...N vendors per document, solidly a multi-valued field. And it's hard to put a maximum number of vendors possible. Thanks, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Mikhail Khludnev [mailto:mkhlud...@griddynamics.com] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:32 AM To: solr-user Subject: Re: Field Collapsing - Anything in the works for multi-valued fields? David, What's the documents and the field? It can help to suggest workaround. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:51 PM, David Parks <davidpark...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I want to configure Field Collapsing, but my target field is > multi-valued (e.g. the field I want to group on has a variable # of > entries per document, 1-N entries). > > I read on the wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldCollapsing) that > grouping doesn't support multi-valued fields yet. > > Anything in the works on that front by chance? Any common work-arounds? > > > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev Principal Engineer, Grid Dynamics <http://www.griddynamics.com> <mkhlud...@griddynamics.com>
