Hi, Could you preserve in the facet.prefix what the user has typed so far? Or is this breaking your requirement?
/Dmitry On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Ugo Matrangolo <ugo.matrang...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > We are using SOLR to build a simple search engine on our e-commerce site. > We also implemented an autocompletion feature using faceting following > exactly what is described in the book 'Apache SOLR 3 Enterprise Search > Server' (page 221). > > What we do is that we fill an autocomplete_facet with our sku_color, > sku_brand and sku_taxonomy; this way an user can just type 'blac' to have > 'black dresses' among all the suggested terms. > > We are happy with this approach except for some minor annoyances. The > biggest one is that we could have repeated suggestion terms in some > particular cases. > > An example is when an user searches by color: if he/her types 'red r' we > query for everything we have that matches 'red' using a facet.prefix=r. > The problem is that one of these facet is again 'red' and, thus, we end up > again with 'red' as a suggested term. > > How can we filter the 'red' term ?? We can do easily this on the client > side but we want to keep all the filtering/boosting logic on SOLR side. > > Any suggestion ?? > > Regards, > Ugo. > -- Regards, Dmitry Kan
