[Blacklight-development] solr schema; facetting vs searching

[Erik Hatcher]

Jonathan - yes, that is correct about facet fields and full-text  
searchable fields.  Making one for each purpose indexed/tokenized  
differently is how to do it.  Blacklight does not do this currently  
though.  All field text, however, is tossed into a searchable "text"  
field, so you can search on practically anything (readable) in the  
MARC record (the to_s of it) in a full-text fashion.

And yes, depending on how you want to sort, and whether you're  
dealing with single-valued or multivalued facet fields, you may also  
need to create a sortable field - a single value per document, in the  
lexicographical format you want sorted by.   And no, Blacklight  
doesn't do sortable fields yet either, that I'm aware of.

Blacklight is pure and simple - MARC -> Ruby indexer -> Solr  <- RoR  
search interface.   Not really any other bells and whistles lurking  
underneath, other than the goodies extracted by the indexer.

	Erik


On Feb 14, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> It seems from reading the solr wiki that if you want a field to be  
> used
> for facetting, and ALSO individually searchable as a fielded  
> search, you
> should index it twice. Does the Blacklight indexing and interface code
> currently do this, indexing some fields (say, "subject" stuff) as  
> facets
> AND as searchable text fields?  Looks like if you want to sort on it
> too, you might want it in yet a third version.
>
> Can anyone point me to what part of the Blacklight code I might  
> want to
> look at to see this in practice, both for indexing and on the  
> interface end?
>
> Jonathan
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