You probably want to apply the patch for SOLR-629. We have this in production at Chegg. I’ve been trying to get this feature added to Solr for seven years. Not sure why it never gets approved.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-629 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-629> wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Dec 8, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Felley, James <fell...@si.edu> wrote: > > I am trying to build an edismax search handler that will allow a fuzzy > search, using the "query fields" property (qf). > > I have two instances of SOLR 4.8.1, one of which has edismax "qf" configured > with no fuzzy search > ... > <str name="qf">ns_name^3.0 i_topic^3.0 i_object_type^3.0<str> > > ... > And the other with a fuzzy search for ns_name (non-stemmed name) > <str name="qf">ns_name~1^3.0 i_topic^3.0 i_object_type^3.0<str> > > ... > > The index of both includes a record with an ns_name of 'Johnson' > > I get no return in either instance with the query > q=Johnso > > I get the Johnson record returned in both instances with a query of > q=Johnso~1 > > The SOLR documentation seems silent on incorporating fuzzy searches in the > query fields. I have seen various posts on Google that suggest that 'qf' > will accept fuzzy search declarations, other posts suggest only the query > itself will allow fuzzy searches (as seems to be the case for me). > > Any guidance will be much appreciated > > Jim > > Jim Felley > OCIO > Smithsonian Institution > fell...@si.edu > > > >
