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It sounds like the new indexing engine?

Can you pls send me a link?

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

Here it is: http://rowlf.dw-demo.com/choral/see-all-choral/choral?Category=Choral 

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

And which of the facets has no options?

Sorry: Composers

Hi Nuno

The lucene index can only handle 2048 options for one facet group. Otherwise it will return nothing. No one can handle that many options anyway...

So I think that is the problem....

Hi Nicolai,

Ok, I guess we found a limitation. Can you propose a workaround?

• Lazy load the Composers based out of Distinct values querying the database for the existing product list?

That's the only thing that comes to mind, but don't think it will perform too well :(

Anyhow I suggest there should be a tag that triggers that alert/error, so we know we reached 2048 limit.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Hi Nuno

Ever heard of Less Is More :-). When you have 21000 different pieces of music, most with different composers, you would not want to show facets.... What human would be able to see through a list of 1000s of composers? It is also, by the way, why your product edit might seem a bit slow.

Loading the composers as you suggest, might be the best option. The search works by adding &composer=C00001 to the querystring, so it is only the facets that are the problem.

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

It's not my project, it the client's. If he want's it and is paying for that, I just need to find him the best way to do it  I don't like it either.

I got it that it's not a facet problem. I was just suggesting a tag saying something because even when we have a limited amount of results the facet does not render it. I understand that the problem is considering all possible options without filtering, but since I have no indication what the issue was, I kept trying different things until I reached out to the Forum

ex: http://rowlf.dw-demo.com/search-results?Summary=test - <500 products and still no composers

But for now it is handled.

Thanks,

Nuno Aguiar

Hi Nuno

I do not think it can make facets when there are more than 2048 unique values in the field - no matter the rest of the search result... Will have to look into it though.

And you are the proffesional - you can advice your customers to do better and ask why? I.e. Why do all those customers want a stupid carousel? :-): http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

Hi Nicolai,

Thanks for looking into it.

You are right about the stupid carousel, but unfortunately I get told "That's what I need and is important to us", more that I would like. A few more projects with unusual requests coming very soon (+40 facets, facets with hundreds of unique values, complex facet matching)... more questions and features requests on the new index engine to come :)

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Nuno:what about an auto complete box back by an AJAX call that filters a distinct list of composers?

Imar

Hi Imar,

Yes, that's what we are going for and suggested right now. Waiting for confirmation by the client if they are ok with that.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar