Hey 🙂 I have a facet defined as:

{"name": "collections", "type": "string[]", "facet": true },

which is not returning any data. Is possible to actually facet on a

string[]

? The use case here, is that a product could be associated with a variety of "collections", so it needs to be an array. If I can't facet on an array, how would I work around this?

👋 Yes you can facet on arrays. Can you please post a minimally reproduceable example?

Hmm okay, I will continue looking into it then. Thanks for the speedy response

@Carl When you say it does not return any data, do you mean no facet counts are returned? If so, in addition to defining a field as a facet in the schema, you’d need to also set the facet_by search parameter

Yeh it returns no data:

If you can post the schema and the actual query, I can quickly 👀 if there is anything obvious missing.

It does so on both the multi_search (e.g. using instantsearch adapter) and by manually querying with

facet_by

. I just created a new container, new index and sent some data but it worked fine. Going to try recreate the full index in the same environment to see if it just magicaly fixes

👍 Happy to investigate if you can re-create the issue consistently.

Index is created by:

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Yeah that looks fine to me.

The problem is that we don't have anything saved int he database for collections 😅 So all looks good from typesense side. Thanks for the quick help and have a great day 👍