That's what faceting does. The facets are only tabulated for documents that satisfy they query, including all of the filter queries and anh other criteria.
Otherwise, facet counts would be the same no matter what the query was. Or I'm completely misunderstanding your question... Best, Erick On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Luis Lebolo <luis.leb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to perform a facet field query on a subset of documents (the > subset being defined via a filter query for instance)? > > I understand that facet pivoting might work, but it would require that the > subset be defined by some field hierarchy, e.g. manufacturer -> price (then > only look at the results for the manufacturer I'm interested in). > > What if I wanted to define a more complex subset (where the name starts > with A but ends with Z and some other field is greater than 5 and yet > another field is not 'x', etc.)? > > Ideally I would then define a "facet field constraining query" to include > only terms from documents that pass this query. > > Thanks, > Luis >
