How to use multiple queries?

[alexhwoods]

Say I have data of TV shows, and I want to simultaneously want to query “Seinfeld” and “Family Guy”.

Can I do this using the same index?

What if I have an array of 40 query strings I want to use?

How can I do this, with performance in mind?

(using javascript, but high level answers are better)

[haroen]

What you’d want to do here is filter, rather than querying. The difference is that a query is textual, and a filter is based on a specific attribute being a value.

Talking about JS, this is the behaviour of a refinementList with “or” as operator. We also call this “disjunctive faceting” in our documentation and the helper.