Re: Searching for empty fields possible?

2010-01-25 Thread Erik Hatcher
Are you indexing an empty value? Or not indexing a field at all? -field:[* TO *] will match documents that do not have the field at all. Erik On Jan 25, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Jan-Simon Winkelmann wrote: Hi there, i have a field defined in my schema as follows: Valid values for the f

Re: Searching for empty fields

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Hostetter
: (*:* AND -color:[* TO *]) the *:* shouldn't be neccessary in Solr, fq=-color:[* TO *] should work just fine. : > One of the fields in my database is color. It can either contain a value : > (blue, red etc) or be blank. When I perform a search with facet counts on, I : > get a count for "_empt

Re: Searching for empty fields

2008-05-07 Thread Erick Erickson
the really simple way is to index "none" for fields that are empty then just search on color:none. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Brendan Grainger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is what you want, but to search for 'empty' fields we use > something like this: > > (*:*

Re: Searching for empty fields

2008-05-06 Thread Brendan Grainger
Hi, Not sure if this is what you want, but to search for 'empty' fields we use something like this: (*:* AND -color:[* TO *]) Hope that helps. Brendan On May 6, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Daniel Andersson wrote: Hi (again) One of the fields in my database is color. It can either contain a valu