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Claes Eriksson
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Skickat: den 20 februari 2018 01:13:18
Till: David Cook
Kopia: Claes Eriksson; koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
Ämne: Re: [Koha-devel] Elasticsearch and facets
Facets are configurable, and goal is feature parity.
El lun., 19 de feb. de 2018 8:59 p. m., David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> escribió:
Hi Claes,
I think the maxRecordsForFacets system preference might be a bit legacy at this point. It was first used when we were building facets manually from retrieved records from Zebra (which was an awful awful no good process). However, I think most installations using Zebra these days use Zebra’s native faceting which uses the entire result set. At least that’s how things were a year or two ago. It may have changed since then. I’d have to double-check, and I have a lot on at the moment, so I’ll leave that for yourself or someone else to check. In any case, we’re all aware of the limitations around that system preference, which is why we made the move to Zebra’s native faceting. (One easy thing to check is in your koha-conf.xml file to see if “use_zebra_facets” is set to 1. If so, then I think “maxRecordsForFacets” shouldn’t have any effect.
I’m not very familiar with the ElasticSearch efforts, but I think it started out as a like-for-like drop-in replacement. Making facets configurable would be great, but I’m not sure anyone has this as a priority at the moment. I think for now the main goal of ElasticSearch may be stability?
David Cook
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From: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Claes Eriksson
Sent: Monday, 19 February 2018 11:01 PM
To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
Subject: [Koha-devel] Elasticsearch and facets
First some ranting about Zebra and then a question about ElasticSearch.
Using Zebra there is a Global system pref. called maxRecordsForFacets. By default the number of records used to build the facet list is the first 20 results shown. You also get a warning in the manual to increase the number since it will impact respons time. Building a facet list out of 20 records may be enough for some people but if you think twice about it you realise that it is quite misleading, especially since the user does not know that the facet list is built on a very limited selection of records. Having the sort set on Author and searching for realivity theory, the facet list may not show Einstein if your library is specialised in physics and have a fairly large collection.
I have high hopes for ElasticSearch to work with facets in a better way. The best would be if all the index could be used for producing e.g. the author facet and that it would have minimal impact on system performance. I understand that there is discussion about making facets configurable (bug 18235) but I cannot see any traces of the improvements I would like to see, but I may be wrong since I am quite new working with Koha.
Regards
Claes Eriksson, VTI, Sweden
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