where can i find some information on what exactly ...
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Vera Gonzalez
11/02/2021, 9:53 PMwhere can i find some information on what exactly faceting does? somewhat confused
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Jason Bosco
11/02/2021, 9:55 PMWhen you include a field in the facet_by search parameter, it essentially returns a count of the number of records that have that value
Jason Bosco
11/02/2021, 9:55 PMSo for eg: on this page: https://songs-search.typesense.org/?songs_1630520530850%5Bquery%5D=Annie%27s%20song%20Denver
release_date is set as a facet_by field, and that's what returns the counts next to each release year
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Vera Gonzalez
11/02/2021, 9:58 PMthat makes sense thank you for clarifying
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Jason Bosco
11/02/2021, 9:59 PMWas just typing out a reply to your email as well when you sent this Slack message 🙂