Thanks for the quick reply Shawn. I will dig into dismax and edismax and come back with questions if I cannot figure it out. I avoided them thinking they are for faceting use only, my need is generic search (all the features I get via solr.SearchHandler) but limited to a set of fields.
Steve On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 5/13/2015 3:36 PM, Steven White wrote: > > <requestHandler name="/select_group_a" class="solr.SearchHandler"> > > <lst name="defaults"> > > <str name="echoParams">explicit</str> > > <int name="rows">20</int> > > <str name="df">F2,F3,F5</str> > > <str name="fl">id,score</str> > > </lst> > > </requestHandler> > > > > However, this isn't working because whatever is in "df" is being treated > as > > single field name. > > The df parameter is shorthand for "default field." It is, by > definition, a single field -- it is the field searched by default when > you don't specify a field directly in a query handled by the default > (lucene) query parser. The default parser doesn't search multiple > fields for your search terms. > > What you're going to want to do here is use a different query parser -- > dismax or edismax -- and put your field list in the qf field, separated > by spaces rather than commas. The qf parameter means "query fields" and > is specific to the dismax/edismax parsers. Depending on your exact > needs, you may also want to define the pf parameter as well (phrase > fields). > > There is a LOT of detail on these parsers, so I'll give you the > documentation links rather than try and explain everything: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/The+DisMax+Query+Parser > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/The+Extended+DisMax+Query+Parser > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
