: A free text option would be really nice. When our users type : "mission:impossible", they are not searching a field named "mission".
right ... SOLR-405 was a start, but as i recall it didn't deal with the case where the stuff before the colon wasn't a field name, and it exposed raw field names to the user. ideally what we should have is something where this... q=mission:impossible episode:5&qf=title^3 description^2&f.episode.qf=ep_num is the same as a booleanquery query combining what you'd get from both of these... q=mission:impossible&qf=title^3 description^2 q=5&qf=ep_num 1) episode is registered as an alias for "ep_num" so naming conventions we wnat to show users aren't directly tied to internal schema.xml names. 2) mission isn't treated as a fieldname becuase it's not a registered alias -Hoss
