To me, one of the more frustrating things I've encountered in Solr is working with date fields. Supposedly, according to the documentation, this is straightforward. But in my experience, it is anything but that. In particular, I've found that the abbreviated forms of date queries, don't work as described.
If I create a query like creation_date: [2016-10-01 To 2016-11-01], it will produce a set of documents produced in the month of November 2016. That's the good news. But, the abbreviated date queries (described in Solr documentation <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/working-with-dates.html>) don't work. Tried creation_date: 2016-11. That's supposed to match documents with any November 2016 date. But actually produces: |"Invalid Date String:'2016-11'| ||And Solr doesn't seem to let me sort on a date field. Tried creation_date asc Produced: |"can not sort on multivalued field: creation_date"| In the AdminUI, if you go to the schema option for my collection, and examine creation_date it show it to be: org.apache.solr.schema.TrieDateField (This was automatically chosen by the managed-schema) In that same AdminUI display, if I click "Load Term Info" I get a list of dates, but when I click on one, it transforms it into a different query form: {!term f=creation_date}2016-10-26T07:59:09.824Z But this query still produces 0 hits (even though the listing says it should produce dozens of hits). I imagine that I'm missing something basic here. But I have no idea what. Any thoughts would be MOST welcome. PS: I'm using Solr 6.6.0.
