I am guessing that the field is actually just a string or a really long word. Solr looks for occurrences of the term/token. It does not however search within a given token without the *. So in your example the system will not match thisisavery with thisisaverylongtesttitle even though they have the same starting letters unless you use the * to tell it to.
One option you could explore is the spellchecking option. It takes your query and "spellchecks" it against a set of words from fields you designate. If they get close then it may be smart enough to pick up the words they are trying to use. -- Jeff Newburn Software Engineer, Zappos.com jnewb...@zappos.com - 702-943-7562 > From: solenweg <daniel_ly...@hotmail.com> > Reply-To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 03:51:04 -0700 (PDT) > To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Subject: Search results depending on search word length? > > > New to solr so maybe it's studip question, but here we go: > > I've got a long title name like "thisisaverylongtesttitle" and is then doing > a search for "thisisavery" but with no results. I can with a search for > "thisisaverylongtit" get the result. But why not with a shorter search > criteria? Is there a limit somewhere in the config? > > Tried using the star operator and that helps, and I get the correct results > back. But then the score is messed up (always 100%). Can you change this so > that it keeps its score despite of the star operator, could this be a way to > go. But how? > > Anyone? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Search-results-depending-on-search-word-length--tp244080 > 15p24408015.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
