> I'm trying to improve the search box on our website by > adding an autosuggest field. The dataset is a set of > properties in the world (mostly europe) and the searchbox is > intended to be filled with a country-, region- or city name. > To do this I've created a separate, simple core with one > document per geographic location, for example the document > for the country "France" contains several fields including > the number of properties (so we can show the approximate > amount of results in the autosuggest box) and the name of > the country France in several languages and some other > bookkeeping information. The name of the property is stored > in two fields: "name" which simple contains the canonical > name of the country, region or city and "names" which is a > multivalued field containing the name in several different > languages. Both fields use an EdgeNGramFilter during > analysis so the query "Fr" can match "France". > > This all seems to work, the autosuggest box gives > appropriate suggestions. But when I turn on highlighting the > results are less than desirable, for example the query "rho" > using dismax (and hl.snippets=5) returns the > following: > > <lst name="5119"> > <arr name="names"> > <str><em>Rég</em>ion > Rhône-Alpes</str> > <str><em>Rhô</em>ne-Alpes</str> > <str><em>Rhô</em>ne-Alpes</str> > <str><em>Rhô</em>ne-Alpes</str> > <str><em>Rhô</em>ne-Alpes</str> > </arr> > <arr name="name"> > <str><em>Rég</em>ion > Rhône-Alpes</str> > </arr> > </lst> > <lst name="5440"> > <arr name="names"> > <str><em>Dép</em>artement du > Rhône</str> > <str><em>Dép</em>artement du > Rhône</str> > <str><em>Rhô</em>ne</str> > <str><em>Dép</em>artement du > Rhône</str> > <str><em>Rhô</em>ne</str> > </arr> > <arr name="name"> > <str><em>Dép</em>artement du > Rhône</str> > </arr> > </lst> > > As you can see, no matter where the match is, the first 3 > characters are highlighted. Obviously not correct for many > of the fields. Is this because of the NGramFilterFactory or > am I doing something wrong?
I used https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-357 for this sometime ago. It was giving correct highlights. However we are now using http://www.ajaxupdates.com/mootools-autocomplete-ajax-script/ It automatically makes bold matching characters without using solr highlighting.
