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| Project: | Facet API |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (won't fix) |
| Issue tags: | ApacheSolr, Faceted browsing |
Issue Summary
Forgive me if I haven't found the right place to bring this up yet but...
Using core search and a theming layer solution, I've been grouping search results by node type.
This offers a nice way to quickly scan what types of results are available and get just the resources needed, when traditional results are less clear on this. It also can give weight to types and implemented in collapsable fieldsets, it's rather nice. This required a hack to increase the # of results (not a huge core hack.)
It certainly wasn't perfect, since you can't control the number of results in each cluster and pagers create a problem (so we set the number all the way to 100.)
Anyhow...
Looking to now implement facet clustering on the initial results page as we're moving to SOLR.
I imagine this could be done with SOLR views, but wondered if it might be facet territory rather than custom building it.
Thoughts about where to take the discussion are certainly welcome!
Comments
#1
Hi doublejosh.
Reading through your post, I am not sure if faceting is where you want to have this discussion. To me, it seems that you are operating on more of the display layer, an maybe executing multiple searches per page. Faceting allows users to drill down the search results, and not so much post-processing the results that come back. Also, may be worth posting to the Apache Solr project since this module is not Solr specific. Respectfully marking as "won't fix" for that reason.
Thanks for posting, and good luck.
~Chris