Re: Search for partial name in Solr 4.x

2014-11-09 Thread Jack Krupansky
Please post some examples of titles and queries that you expect should match. How "partial" can the title be? How "full" does it need to be? When there are multiple partial matches how are you expecting them to be ranked? -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: PeriS Sent: Sunday,

Re: Search for partial name in Solr 4.x

2014-11-09 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi, You may be looking for wildcard queries or ngrams. Otis > On Nov 9, 2014, at 3:26 PM, PeriS wrote: > > I was wondering if there is a way to search on partial names? Ex; Field is a > string and stores values like titles of a book; When searching part of the > title may be supplied; How

Re: Search for partial name in Solr 4.x

2014-11-09 Thread Jorge Luis Betancourt Gonzalez
The whole idea behind Solr is to solve the problem that you just explain, in particular what you need is to define the title field as a solr.TextField and then define a tokenizer. The tokenizer essentially will transform the initial text into tokens. Solr has several tokenizers, each which its s