I have external sites in my Solr index, where the "bundle" field has no value, and I'd like to create a facet to include/exclude external sites in the search results. I basically want one option to filter all documents that have a value for "bundle", and another option to filter for those that don't.

I can replicate what I want by sending this to my Solr instance:

External docs:
select/?facet=true&q=my query&facet.field=bundle&fq=-bundle:[* TO *]

Internal docs:
select/?facet=true&q=my query&facet.field=bundle&fq=bundle:[* TO *]

I'm having a hard time figuring out what all I would have to implement in my module to get this working. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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So are you saying that the bundle field in the index may or may not have a value depending on whether it is an external site? If so, the "missing facet" might be what you are looking for.

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That's correct.

I saw the "missing facet" setting in the facet configuration, but I wasn't able to figure out what exactly that did.

Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way, but right now I'm implementing a query type in order to send the right information to Solr, and then will implement a facet on top of it to map the names I want to each choice.

I think the problem with using an existing facet query is that I don't want a list of all of the values of the bundle field, I just want exists/doesn't exist.

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I'm also having trouble figuring out how to make the active facet filter use radio buttons instead of checkboxes, there should only be a single active value allowed.

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Not sure you need a new "query type" plugin. You are still doing a simple term query, correct? You should only be implementing this plugin if you are doing something like adding a wildcard query or geospacial query. If you alter the facet definition for the bundle and set the "facet missing allowed" key to true, it will automatically provide a facet that allows you to filter on items void of a bundle value.

In terms of the radios, you will need to implement a new display widget to do that. Effectively you will want to copy the FacetapiWidgetCheckboxLinks widget and add a jsSetting that is "makeRadios" or something like that. Include a JavaScript file similar to facetapi.js that makes a radio instead of a checkbox.

If you wanted to get creative, you could also patch the module and add a setting to the curent "Links with checkboxes" widget and provide an option to choose whether you are displaying radios or a checkbox. That would very much be welcomed.

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I need to aggregate all of the terms in the bundle field to "Internal" and then exclude all bundle fields as "external". It didn't seem like a term query could accomplish that, but I could be mistaken.

I'll put up the code after I get this cleaned up a little.

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Ok, cool. Post back on your findings, because I am curious about what is needed to accomplish this use case.

Thanks,
Chris

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As I get into the radio buttons issue, it doesn't really seem like there's a good way to tell Facet API "I only want one possible value for this filter".

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Here is the mostly-working module that contains the facet and query type that I wrote, this way you can get the whole picture of what I'm trying to do.

I think I'm over my head trying to get a radio button display working. I have the radio buttons showing up, but I have no idea how to get Facet API to de-select all of the active filters for that facet and replace them with the clicked value.

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And actually, the more I think about it, radio buttons wouldn't work that well anyways. There wouldn't be any way to deselect a selected facet.

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Hm, never thought of that! Maybe you would have to add an item that said "No filter"? Not exactly sure how you would add that off the top of my head.

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Component: Code (functionality) » Code
Status: Active » Fixed

Marking support request as "fixed" since there is now some good documentation on how to create widgets.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.