Adding this as an issue as there are no documentation pages yet to which I can add this.

In my experience the current D7 version works pretty fine. Here is what I did to create a custom search page with facets for a specific content type.

This short guide assumes you have a solr server up and running and configured in your Drupal installation. In order to have facets you need to add your vocabularies as fields to the content type for which you want to create a search page. Make sure the vocabulary fields are not hidden in the display settings as they will not be available as facets.

1) Add a new view and under Show select "Apache Solr search"
2) Fill in other settings as you like
3) In the view itself add a filter 'Apache Solr: bundle_name'; under setting set operator to > is equal to [name of content type]
4) Add the fields you want to display
5) Create a Panels page: add the view you just created, add the facets you want to display
6) le voila: you have a faceted search page for a specific content type

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acidpotato’s picture

acidpotato commented

Closing as resolved? This can actually be added under Documentation for the module.

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acidpotato commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
Gerben Zaagsma’s picture

Gerben Zaagsma commented

Closing fine of course, can one of the maintainers put this on a documentation page?

JRZ-2’s picture

JRZ-2 commented

hmm, well, first it's very shallow and second, it doesn't work at all…

Gerben Zaagsma’s picture

Gerben Zaagsma commented

That isn't very helpful in improving things. What other information would you need and what doesn't work for you?

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kopeboy
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Guys, this is amazing. Seriously, WTF? We have a module almost no one is able to use, even if integrates the SEARCH with VIEWS (most used module).

We don't even have a f***ing READ ME file inside the tar ball.

Going to try Search API with solr... They say is way more complex, but at least a bit documented

miroslavbanov’s picture

miroslavbanov commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Needs work

Documentation is fairly non-existing at the moment. Also, project page has information relevant to 6.x branch years ago.

I recently became maintainer of this module, so I am now able to correct these problems, but I have limited time to do that. If anyone is interested in contributing to the documentation, you are very welcome. You can help by creating a project documentation pages, and/or by uploading a patch which adds README to the module.

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mcjim commented

Just to clarify:

[name of content type] is the human-readable name, not the machine name.

miroslavbanov’s picture

miroslavbanov commented
Status: Needs work » Fixed

This documentation was added here:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2473441

Thanks for the help. If anyone would like to contribute more to the documentation, you are welcome to post in Issue queue or directly add documentation pages.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.