We had to do the same thing - we draw our facet navigation links by looping over the full result set from our database, and then we add the facet counts and draw the link url's using the solr data.
-L On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@buyways.nl>wrote: > I'm afraid you'd have to add the missing countries in your application. If > it's not in the index, it will not be returned. You last question is > possible, the facet.query parameter allows you to rely on other conditions > to generate a facet count. But if the missing countries are not in the > index, you cannot query against them. > > -----Original message----- > From: Allistair Crossley <a...@roxxor.co.uk> > Sent: Wed 29-09-2010 15:38 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; > Subject: Missing facet values for zero counts > > 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 >
