Thanks Erick. Here is the Solr response with debug on. The productName IS in the qf parameter in dismax. I have also pasted my dismax definition and the "text" field type definition:
− 0 47 − on on 0 bit/star dismax 10 2.2 − − bit/star bit/star bit/star − +DisjunctionMaxQuery((longDesc:"bit star" | shortDesc:"bit star"^1.2 | productName:"bit star"^10.0)~0.01) DisjunctionMaxQuery((longDesc:"bit star"~10^5.0 | shortDesc:"bit star"~10^6.0 | productName:"bit star"~10^50.0)~0.01) − +(longDesc:"bit star" | shortDesc:"bit star"^1.2 | productName:"bit star"^10.0)~0.01 (longDesc:"bit star"~10^5.0 | shortDesc:"bit star"~10^6.0 | productName:"bit star"~10^50.0)~0.01 DisMaxQParser − 15.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 15.0 − 15.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 ============================================= Dismax Definition: dismax explicit 0.01 productName^10 shortDesc^1.2 longDesc^1.0 productName^50 shortDesc^6.0 longDesc^5.0 productName,shortDesc,thumbnail 3<75% 10 *:* text features name 0 name regex elevator spellcheck ============================================= "text" field type definition: -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Special-characters-during-indexing-and-searching-tp2795914p2796760.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.