Another option is to override the default operator in the query.
{!lucene q.op=OR}city:Chicago^10 +Romantic +View
Colin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Sokolov [mailto:soko...@ifactory.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 9:42 AM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Cc: kenf_nc
> Subject: Re: Query question
>
> Another alternative (prettier to my eye), would be:
>
> (city:Chicago AND Romantic AND View)^10 OR (Romantic AND View)
>
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
> On 11/03/2010 09:28 AM, kenf_nc wrote:
> > Unfortunately the default operator is set to AND and I can't change
> that at
> > this time.
> >
> > If I do (city:Chicago^10 OR Romantic OR View) it returns way too
> many
> > unwanted results.
> > If I do (city:Chicago^10 OR (Romantic AND View)) it returns less
> unwanted
> > results, but still a lot.
> > iorixxx's solution of (Romantic AND View AND (city:Chicago^10 OR (*:*
> > -city:Chicago))) does seem to work. Chicago results are at the top,
> and the
> > remaining results seem to fit the other search parameters. It's an
> ugly
> > query, but does seem to do the trick for now until I master Dismax.
> >
> > Thanks all!
> >
> >
