# Offsetting by value in facet set (from parameter) **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 24, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offsetting-by-value-in-facet-set-from-parameter/9453 "2012-10-24T01:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![James\_Reynolds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@James\_Reynolds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/James_Reynolds)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offsetting-by-value-in-facet-set-from-parameter/9453/1 "2012-10-24T01:22:15Z")
Hello all: > I have a question at stack overflow above. If this isn't possible right now, do any of you know if this will be possible after lucene 4 is integrated? -- ---
**Author:** ![Igor\_Motov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igor_motov/32/45193_2.png) [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offsetting-by-value-in-facet-set-from-parameter/9453/2 "2012-10-24T10:41:29Z")
I think it can be implemented even without lucene 4. With relatively simple modification elasticsearch could drop first N facets before sending results to the client, it would still have to collect (offset + size) facets from shards though in order to sort them correctly. But I am really curious why do you need support for offsets in terms stats facets? Could you tell us a little bit about your use case? Are you paging through a lot of facets? On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:22:15 PM UTC-4, James Reynolds wrote: > Hello all: > > [elasticsearch offset and limit facets - Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13041276/elasticsearch-offset-and-limit-facets) > > I have a question at stack overflow above. > > If this isn't possible right now, do any of you know if this will be > possible after lucene 4 is integrated? -- ---
**Author:** ![James\_Reynolds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@James\_Reynolds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/James_Reynolds)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offsetting-by-value-in-facet-set-from-parameter/9453/3 "2012-10-24T13:20:56Z")
Thanks for the reply: You are exactly correct, the result set of the facets could be incredibly long - possibly tens of thousands. Ideally, we'd like a user to be able to click on pages something like 1,2,3 ... [last page] (typical pagination). On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:41:29 AM UTC-4, Igor Motov wrote: > I think it can be implemented even without lucene 4. > With relatively simple modification elasticsearch could drop first N facets > before sending results to the client, it would still have to collect > (offset + size) facets from shards though in order to sort them correctly. > But I am really curious why do you need support for offsets in terms stats > facets? Could you tell us a little bit about your use case? Are you paging > through a lot of facets? > > On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:22:15 PM UTC-4, James Reynolds wrote: > > > Hello all: > > > > [elasticsearch offset and limit facets - Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13041276/elasticsearch-offset-and-limit-facets) > > > > I have a question at stack overflow above. > > > > If this isn't possible right now, do any of you know if this will be > > possible after lucene 4 is integrated? -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offsetting-by-value-in-facet-set-from-parameter/9453/4 "2017-07-06T03:07:26Z")