[hibernate-dev] HSEARCH Faceting and facet counts

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On Mon 2013-06-03 10:28, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> On 3 June 2013 09:59, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 31 Jan 2013, at 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I know we had a debate but I can't seem to find any detail in the
> >> documentation about how facet selection influences the facet counts.
> >>
> >> In my demo, the facet count is applied after the selection. ie if I do a
> >> query that returns '< $100' = 20 and '> $100' = 45, once I select '<
> >> $100', the count displayed on '> $100' = 0 which is very weird from a
> >> use point of view.
> 
> Right that looks weird, but shouldn't you be hiding the other facets
> after having selected one?
> I would expect a UI to potentially show new sub-facets only, to allow
> a user to drill into more details.

The thing is, if you select a price range, you want to be able to select
the other price range, so you can't "hide it".

Play a bit with Amazon's version 
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_3?rh=n%3A3151491%2Ck%3AUSB%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A1259713011&keywords=USB&ie=UTF8&qid=1370264935&rnid=1259751011