: When I'm using a dismax query handler, I'm having trouble doing : queries like this: : : category:fruit apple
: The dimax query handler docs (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ : DisMaxRequestHandler) make reference to special chars being escaped, : so I'm wondering if the ':' qualifier is being made into something : useless. yeah ... the dismax handler is designed this way -- it doesn't support the full syntax of the lucene QueryParser, instead it treats the text input as literal text the user is searching for, and looks for it across all of the fields configured in the qf. If your goal is to search for "apple" and restrict the results to things in the category "fruit" then you can use the fq (Filter Query) param to specify a regular QueryParser like query to define a super set of all legal results (ie: "qt=dismax&q=apple&fq=category:fruit") ... this has two benefits over doing the same type of thing with StandardRequest handler: 1) The tf of the Term category:fruit doesn't affect the scores of results, they are judged entirely on the merrit of the word "apple" 2) The fq is used to build a DocSet which is cached, so the next time you do a query with teh same restriction (ie: "qt=dismax&q=banana&fq=category:fruit") only the "banana" part of your query needs to be computed. If your goal is to search for "apple" and have items in the result which match category:fruit get better scores then items which don't, then use the bq (Boost Query) param in the same way as the fq param above ... again, the full lucene QueryParser syntax is supported. -Hoss
