Facet values as query criteria

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Hello.

I think that facets are mainly useful in creating systems similar to
e-shops.
Search returns products which are shown on the page, and facets represent
criteria that can be used to restrict products that are shown.
So it would be great to:

  1. Easily convert selected facet value (or values) into query/filters
    provided to next search operation
  2. Count facet values of a facet ignoring if any of its values was selected
    or not (like on most of e-shops - checking any facet value recounts other
    facets excluding modified one)

Is there an easy way to do this using ES?

Regards
Wojciech Durczyński

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  1. How this is done depends on the client you are using.
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Thanks,
Matt Weber

2011/9/9 Wojciech Durczyński wojciech.durczynski@comarch.com

Hello.

I think that facets are mainly useful in creating systems similar to
e-shops.
Search returns products which are shown on the page, and facets represent
criteria that can be used to restrict products that are shown.
So it would be great to:

  1. Easily convert selected facet value (or values) into query/filters
    provided to next search operation
  2. Count facet values of a facet ignoring if any of its values was selected
    or not (like on most of e-shops - checking any facet value recounts other
    facets excluding modified one)

Is there an easy way to do this using ES?

Regards
Wojciech Durczyński

3

You mean the multi select option I think.

Have a look:

which is really powerful but not that easy compared to Solr. Here is
the discussion:

BTW: I implemented this on http://jetsli.de/tweets (facet/filters
visible if logged in) sourcecode @github

Regards,
Peter.