[Blacklight-development] solr schema; facetting vs searching

[Jonathan Rochkind]

Hmm, I guess I'm confused as to how to figure out which SOLR/lucene 
fields are suitable for which use. I'll look around with it more in the 
ways you say, get Luke going and such.

Jonathan.

Erik Hatcher wrote:
>
> On Feb 15, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>> Perfect, thanks. Before I was asking if you could do a fielded search in
>> the current blacklight. You said, yes, using lucene syntax, if you knew
>> the name of the field you wanted to search. But it sounds like most of
>> the fields you might want to search actually aren't stored in the index
>> in a suitable way at present.
>
> I wouldn't say that.   There are a lot of *_text fields that are 
> surely useful for searching.   And take a look at the schema.xml - all 
> fields are being stored currently so they are 
> retrievable/highlightable from the front-end easily.
>
> Have a look at the Lucene index using Luke 
> <http://www.getopt.org/luke/> or Solr's Luke Request Handler - check 
> out the fields indexed and play around.   There is more there than 
> meets the eye.   Certainly there is much more to MARC than the indexer 
> is extracting currently, though - so lots more can be done.
>
>> If Blacklight doesn't do sortable fields yet.... how does Blacklight
>> sort search results?
>
> Depends - if you're purely navigating by facets, the order is in index 
> order (the order the records were indexed).
>
> However, once you add a full-text query, sorting is by.... 
> relevance!   Imagine that :)
>
>     Erik

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