Hello list, I am implementing a directory using Solr. The user is able to search with a free-text query or 2 filters (provided as pick-lists) for country. A directory entry only has one country.
I am using Solr facets for country and I use the facet counts generated initially by a *:* search to generate my pick-list. This is working fairly well but there are a couple of issues I am facing. Specifically the countries pick-list does not contain ALL possible countries. It only contains those that have been indexed against a document. I have looked at facet.missing but I cannot see how this will work - if no documents have a country of Sweden, then how would Solr know to generate a missing total of zero for Sweden - it's never heard of it. I feel I am missing something - is there a way by which you tell Solr all possible countries rather than relying on counts generated from the index? The countries in question reside in a database table belonging to our application. Thanks, Allistair
