Isha, Could be a case sensitivity thing. Try "crime" if that's what's that field (you can look manually when you run *:* or with Luke.
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Isha Garg <isha.g...@orkash.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 7:31:38 AM > Subject: string field_type query > > i had declare a field_name=category ,field_type=string > now i am querying category:Crime but it did nt show any results .But when i >query for *:* it shows values related to this category > can anyone tell me the problem? >