: I would: : - enter the problematic query on the Solr Admin Analysis page and make sure all is sane there : - use &debugQuery=true and see how your query is rewritten
Also look at the explanation output -- even if no docs are being returned you can use explainOther to see *why* something isn't matching. : > c. http://test02:8080/sfx/genre?fl=score&q=Featured%20Titles : > No results. "Featured Titles" appears only in the multi-valued "cat" : > field. my hunch -- i think you said that your fields use the "string" field type, but since whitespace is "special" to the query parser it's going to treat "Featured" and "Titles" as seperate words (which won't match an indexed value of "Featured Titles" If you know all the fields in your qf are "strings" you can just always quote your q param: q="Featured%20Titles" -Hoss