I suspect, but don't know for sure, that you need to modify it to *:* - tag:test
but I confess I'm not at all sure that it'll work in this context...... Best Erick On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Kevin Cunningham < kcunning...@telligent.com> wrote: > I'm using Solr 1.4 with the standard request handler and attempting to > apply a negative fq for all requests via the "appends" elements but its not > being applied. Is this an intended limitation? I looked in JIRA for an > existing issue but nothing jumped out. > > Works fine: > <lst name="appends"> > <str name="fq">tag:test</str> > </lst> > > > Does not work: > <lst name="appends"> > <str name="fq">-tag:test</str> > </lst> > > >