> > So if I search for "id:1 OR id:2 OR id:3", I want the MLT result to be a > single list of items, rather than 3 lists. > I did not understand this. Isn't the "q" parameter in MLT handler supposed to serve the same objective. "/mlt?q=(id:1 OR id:2 OR id:3)&mlt.fl=mlt-field&mlt.mintf=1" just works fine.
Cheers Avlesh On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Andrew Ingram <a...@andrewingram.net>wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying various methods of building a user-specific product > recommendation system and one idea is to use solr's MLT functionality. > > For each customer I have a list of items they've bought, and I want to find > similar items that are new to the site. > > The problem is that MLT operates on each result found (if I send it an id, > it will return a list for that id, if I send it lots of ids it will return > a > list for EACH result), what I really want is to return a single list based > on the combined factors of all items return by the initial query. > > So if I search for "id:1 OR id:2 OR id:3", I want the MLT result to be a > single list of items, rather than 3 lists. > > Is this possible without writing a completely new handler? > > Regards, > Andrew Ingram >
