@ http://www.mysecondhome.co.uk/search.htm<http://www.mysecondhome.co.uk/search.html> --> when you drag the sliders , an update of how many results would match is immediately shown. I really like this. How did you do this? IS this out-of-the-box available with the suggested Facet_by_range patch?
Thanks, Geert-Jan 2010/11/9 gwk <g...@eyefi.nl> > Hi, > > Instead of all the facet queries, you can also make use of range facets ( > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters#Facet_by_Range), which > is in trunk afaik, it should also be patchable into older versions of Solr, > although that should not be necessary. > > We make use of it (http://www.mysecondhome.co.uk/search.html) to create > the nice sliders Geert-Jan describes. We've also used it to add the > sparklines above the sliders which give a nice indication of how the current > selection is spread out. > > Regards, > > gwk > > > On 11/9/2010 3:33 PM, Geert-Jan Brits wrote: > >> Just to add to this, if you want to allow the user more choice in his >> option >> to select ranges, perhaps by using a 2-sided javasacript slider for the >> pricerange (ala kayak.com) it may be very worthwhile to discretize the >> allowed values for the slider (e.g: steps of 5 dolllar) Most js-slider >> implementations allow for this easily. >> >> This has the advantages of: >> - having far fewer possible facetqueries and thus a far greater chance of >> these facetqueries hitting the cache. >> - a better user-experience, although that's debatable. >> >> just to be clear: for this the Solr-side would still use: >> &facet=on&facet.query=price:[50 >> TO *]&facet.query=price:[* TO 100] and not the optimized pre-computed >> variant suggested above. >> >> Geert-Jan >> >> 2010/11/9 jayant<jayan...@hotmail.com> >> >> That was very well thought of and a clever solution. Thanks. >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> >>> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/How-to-Facet-on-a-price-range-tp1846392p1869201.html >>> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >
