We recently needed multiple values in the payload, so I put a JSON blob in 
there. It comes back as a string, so you have to decode that JSON separately. 
Otherwise, it was a pretty clean solution.

wunder
Walter Underwood
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http://observer.wunderwood.org/  (my blog)


> On Apr 14, 2017, at 1:57 PM, OTH <omer.t....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, that works!  But is it possible to have multiple payloadFields?
> 
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Marek Tichy <ma...@gn.apc.org> wrote:
> 
>> Utilize the payload field.
>>> I don't need to search multiple fields; I need to search just one field
>> but
>>> get the corresponding values from another field as well.
>>> I.e. if a user is searching for cities, I wouldn't need the countries to
>>> also be searched.  However, when the list of cities is displayed, I need
>>> their corresponding countries to also be displayed.
>>> This is obviously possible with the regular Solr index, but I can't
>> figure
>>> out how to do it with the Suggester index, which seems to only be able to
>>> have one field.
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Binoy Dalal <binoydala...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You can create a copy field and copy to it from all the fields you want
>> to
>>>> retrieve the suggestions from and then use that field with the
>> suggester.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu 13 Apr, 2017, 23:21 OTH, <omer.t....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've followed the steps here to set up auto-suggest:
>>>>> https://lucidworks.com/2015/03/04/solr-suggester/
>>>>> 
>>>>> So basically I configured the auto-suggester in solrconfig.xml, where I
>>>>> told it which field in my index needs to be used for auto-suggestion.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The problem is:
>>>>> When the user searches in the text box in the front end, if they are
>>>>> searching for cities, I also need the countries to appear in the
>>>> drop-down
>>>>> list which the user sees.
>>>>> The field which is being searched is only 'city' here.  However, I need
>>>> to
>>>>> retrieve the corresponding value in the 'country' field as well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> How could I do this using the suggester?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Binoy Dalal
>>>> 
>> 
>> 

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