Facet for Enumerable field

Peter Neuss

Vote:

I have an index of Products, each with a Manufacturer. I created a histogram facet for the Manufacturer Ids in this way:

HistogramFacetFor(p => p.manufacturer.Id, 1)

and this worked just fine. Then I learned each Product can have a list of Manufacturers. How can I create a facet now?

For example, if the index contains Products:

{Product1
Manufacturers: [{Man1 Id: 1} {Man2 Id: 2}]
}
{Product2
Manufacturers: [{Man3 Id: 3} {Man2 Id: 2}]
}

I need to know that there is:
1 product with Manufacturer.Id 1
2 products with Manufacturer.Id 2
1 product with Manufacturer.Id 3

Thanks

#150245

Jun 14, 2016 18:07

Daniel Ovaska

Vote:

Then you need to check into nested queries. Check documentation here

http://world.episerver.com/documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/EPiServer-Find/12/DotNET-Client-API/Searching/nested-queries/

That's exactly what nested queries were meant to support...

#150246

Jun 14, 2016 18:35

Per Magne Skuseth

Vote:

Hi,

I think you should be able to do this using TermsFacetFor.

Create an extension method to get the Ids:

    public static class Extensions
    {
        public static List<int> Ids(this IEnumerable<Manufacturer> manufacturers)
        {
            return manufacturers.Select(x => x.Id).ToList();
        }
    }

then make sure there are indexed:

SearchClient.Instance..Conventions.ForInstancesOf<Book>().IncludeField(x => x.Manufacturers.Ids());

Remember to reindex!

Since the Id's are ints and not strings, you'll need to do a small "hack" in order to get Find to accept the input:

 .TermsFacetFor(x => (string)(object) x.Manufacturers.Ids())

#150265

Jun 15, 2016 9:32

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Facet for Enumerable field