[TYPO3-Solr] jumbled facets

[Michael McManus]

Aha! Got it.

Thanks, Ingo. This makes perfect sense.

Definitely some new terminology to learn here. I'm excited to dig into 
this.

Best,
Michael
Cast Iron Coding

Ingo Renner wrote:
> Am 17.01.12 02:52, schrieb Michael Mcmanus:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
>> I've configured a mutivalue field, in an indexer. I've followed the
>> tt_news example for the keywords fields and my TS looks like this:
>>
>> keywords = SOLR_MULTIVALUE
>> keywords {
>>      field = keywords
>> }
>>
>> The records appear to get indexed properly. Querying Solr directly,
>> yields a response like this:
> ...
>> When I try to query for facets, the "keywords" values get all jumbled.
> ...
>> Produces this result:
> ...
>> So, "Photography" gets turned into "photographi", "explosion" becomes
>> "explos," etc...
>
> That behavior is correct basically. The keywords field is of type
> "text", text is a field type that uses stemming, thus the "jumbled" results.
>
> For facets I recommend to use field types that do not do stemming, like
> string. Since you don't want to modify the schema you just use a dynamic
> field:
>
> keywords_stringM = SOLR_MULTIVALUE
> keywords_stringM {
>    field = keywords
> }
>
> Now just use that keywords_stringM field to create the facet.
>
> So "keywords" is a name you can choose on your own, then it is followed
> by an underscore (_) to separate the name from the type, "string" is the
> type and lastly "M" marks a multivalue field, whereas "S" would be
> single value.
>
> You can have a look at the end in
> EXT:solr/resources/solr/typo3cores/conf/general_schema_fields.xml for
> all the dynamic field types that are available.
>
>
> best
> Ingo
>