Thanks Matt and Yavar for the suggestion.
Now I have fixed the issue.
For others benefit, the issue was with defining the fields as String. Now I
changed them to text_general. Also, instead of indexing these individual
fields, I created corresponding copyFields for each of them, where dest
field
There might be issues with your default search field. Suppose if you are
searching field named "MyTestField" then give your query as
MyTestField:Birmingham
and see if you get any results. As Matt suggested there might be some
issues with the way you have done tokenization/analysis etc.
On Mon, A
What type of field are you using? String? If so try another type, like
text_general.
I believe with type String the contents are stored in the index exactly as they
are inputted into the index. So a search hit will have to match exactly the
full value of the field, I assume in your case "Birm
To add further, initially when I give *.*, numfound returns 14170. After
giving a search string, numFound returns 0. Now if I change the search
string again back to *.*, numFound still returns to 0.
I have to refresh the page completely to see 14170 again when *.* is given
as the search string.
T
