Hi Lang
Can you elaborate on what you need in cycle 2's controller? When you
say a subset of facets, what are you after?
--
Pat
On 14/05/2009, at 2:25 PM, m7d wrote:
>
> I apologize for being very pedantic, but to follow the example through
> some request/response cycles to further drill into the facets would
> help me.
>
> Request/Response Cycle 1 controller:
>
> @facets = Model.facets
>
> Request/Response Cycle 1 view:
>
> Iterate over @facets and create links.
>
> Request/Response Cycle 2 controller:
>
> Marshall @facets, presumably from the url?, and perform @facets.for
> (:<facet_the_user_clicked_on_from_url> => <facet_value_from_url>) to
> subset of results represented by selected facet.
>
> In this step, what would be the best way to get the subset of facets
> since @facets.for only returns results? Should we filter via
> Model.facets(:with => {:<facet_the_user_clicked_on_from_url> =>
> <facet_value_from_url>}) or ? I think I tried this and it didn't work
> correctly as far as results.
>
> Request/Response 2 view:
>
> Iterate over results and display them
>
> Same for facets.
>
> Let user repeat step 2.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> On May 8, 5:03 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Chris
>>
>> You should be able to get the count first by the following code:
>>
>> @facets= Model.facets
>>
>> That will return a Hash-like object (well, a subclass of Hash), which
>> will look something like:
>>
>> {:s_service_address => {"Value A" => 3, "Value B" => 4, "Value C"
>> => 1}}
>>
>> These results can be used in your views to provide a summary of the
>> breakdown of search results. You can then drill down on those results
>> as follows:
>>
>> @facets.for(:s_service_address => "Value B")
>>
>> I'm not quite sure if this is what you're after, going by your
>> description, but hopefully it's helpful nonetheless.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Pat
>>
>> On 29/04/2009, at 8:26 PM, internetchris wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hey Everyone,
>>
>>> I'm on to my next task. I would like to implement / try out the
>>> facet
>>> feature in my search results. As a test I added this to my
>>> "define_index" block...
>>
>>> define_index do
>>> indexes s_property_no, :sortable => true
>>> indexes s_service_address, :facet => true
>>> indexes names.name, :as => :property_name
>>> indexes names.address :as => :property_address
>>> end
>>
>>> I understand I can view my facet field using "Model.facets" , but
>>> I'm
>>> not sure how I implement this in a controller/view. Can someone
>>> explain how I can implement a facet where at the top of my search
>>> results I have a field that basically looks like this...
>>
>>> Service Address (3)
>>
>>> The 3 would represent the number of search results returned for the
>>> "s_service_address" field. If a user clicks on "Service Address (3)"
>>> the search results would then get filtered. Any help in the right
>>> direction would be appreciated. To view my model/controller/view
>>> info,
>>> you can use the example I posted on my blog. This is my current
>>> setup.
>>
>>> http://railstrip.ourgreatjourney.com/rails_thinkingsphinx_2_models/
>>
>>> I started using my blog as an online diary of my troubles/solutions,
>>> so if I get this figured out I will be sure to add a new post on how
>>> to do it.
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>>> Chris
>
> >
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