Islandora/islandora_solr_search — pull request #35 by zacho (2012-03-19 21:47:10+00:00)
Title: Suggestion: Background filters

This change enables the use of islandora_solr_search without any user-specified query, i.e. in browse-only mode. It allows a configurable default query (q) that is sent to solr in lieu of a user-supplied one.

Notably, users can use the breadcrumb when browsing results in islandora_solr_search, and can back up and delete specific filters (fq elements), and for some time they've been able to delete the *base query*, but this fails (always leads to no search results found). With this change, seamless filter-only browsing is made possible.

Additionally this allows the configuration of additional arbitrary query filters to be applied in addition to any user-generated filters, similar to what's done with the namespace restriction, but generalized. It can be useful to globally filter out results of types that are not desirable.