I have a lot of products, on which I need to make a facetted search.What I have to search upon is ProductDefinitionType, a single, shared, variant property and product categories.The first two are very simple to build an index upon, as they can only have one value. The last one is a bit more advanced, as it can have multiple values.The solution in which I need this, is in a library, that I do not have the time to rewrite, so I need a solution that can be used using build-in examine.I was thinking about indexing the categories as a pipe-delimited list in a single category field. That would also work but is it the right thing to do?Now that I have my index setup, I need to know how to do the facetted search. I was looking at BoboBrowse.Net (http://bobo.codeplex.com/), and it seems easy for the first two columns, the last one I cannot seem to find any examples on how to do the facets on a pipe delimited list.I use uCommerce version 3.6.1.13149 and Umbraco version 6.1.2
I recall Tim Payne did it but he had space separated values for each term if the term had a space in it he repalced with _ so "some facet" became some_facet and that worked. Would need some feedback from Tim I have only played with Bobo not done any actual dev.
Facetted examine index on multiple product categories
I have a lot of products, on which I need to make a facetted search.What I have to search upon is ProductDefinitionType, a single, shared, variant property and product categories.The first two are very simple to build an index upon, as they can only have one value. The last one is a bit more advanced, as it can have multiple values.The solution in which I need this, is in a library, that I do not have the time to rewrite, so I need a solution that can be used using build-in examine.I was thinking about indexing the categories as a pipe-delimited list in a single category field. That would also work but is it the right thing to do?Now that I have my index setup, I need to know how to do the facetted search. I was looking at BoboBrowse.Net (http://bobo.codeplex.com/), and it seems easy for the first two columns, the last one I cannot seem to find any examples on how to do the facets on a pipe delimited list.I use uCommerce version 3.6.1.13149 and Umbraco version 6.1.2
Nick,
I recall Tim Payne did it but he had space separated values for each term if the term had a space in it he repalced with _ so "some facet" became some_facet and that worked. Would need some feedback from Tim I have only played with Bobo not done any actual dev.
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Ismial
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