Re: FarCry SOLR Pro Category and Related Content Search

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On Friday, October 5, 2012 10:33:25 AM UTC-4, Chris Kent wrote:
>
> Jeff, Sean,
>
> First, a big WOW and thank you for this plugin.
>
> Couple of suggestions to add in future version of FarCry SOLR Pro
>
>
>    - -          Automatic category indexing
>    - -          Automatic related content items indexing
>    
>   As all content types have a different named property for categories it 
> is not possible just to filter on a particular indexed field name.
>
>
>    - I have just added these to allow filtering of search results by 
>    category/related items in the search form/results.
>    - -          I added a couple of custom fields to store the objectIDs 
>    for the content items categories and any UUID/array property values.
>    - -          These custom fields mxd_category & mxd_propref added in 
>    the schema.xml
>    - -          Modified the addRecordToIndex to get all category 
>    property values into mxd_category and UUID/array values into mxd_propref
>    - -          Modified the search form to include FarCry multiple 
>    typeahead form field for category and also multiple typeahead form fields 
>    for any content types that required a filter
>    - -          Finally modified the search to pass in custom parameters 
>    to include any filter values e.g.
>    
>    <cfset stobj.customParams["fq"] = " +mxd_category:(#lCategories#) 
> +mxd_propref:(#lPropRef#) +typename:(#fqContentTypes#)" />
>
>
> This makes it very easy to add category / related content 
> content filtering to the search results.
>
> Chris.
>
>

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