Erick (sorry for missing the "c" previous :D), After playing around with the edismax query parser, I'm starting to like it. Originally I just wanted the simplest search feature to get started, but I can see that I might take advantage of edismax's field booster feature later.
Turns out the trick to get my search working was to add all the document fields to the <qf> parameter. Previously I commented this parameter out, so edismax parser had no field to operate on, which explains why it grabbed the default search field. After I added the fields, the query does search against all of them now. I'm learning a lot as I go :) ________________________________ From: Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; Yuhao <nfsvi...@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 1:56 PM Subject: Re: Help: nothing is searchable in Solr You're getting confused between default search fields and the dismax query parser. Look in your solrconfig.xml file and you'll see a request handler I think. Take a look at: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxQParserPlugin I think this will do what you want. The catch-all field you mentioned is also possible, but the edismax style requests allow you to boost various fields separately, giving you finer control over the results. Best Erick On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Yuhao <nfsvi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Erik, > > Thanks for your suggestions. After I made all field names [a-zA-Z0-9_] and > turned on debugQuery=true, I saw that the query was using something like > "text^0.5", which is beyond my current comprehension. I commented out those > "<field>^0.5" type settings in solrconfig.xml. Now the search works a little > better, but still far from perfect. Now if I search for a term, say "335", > the query is: > > > +DisjunctionMaxQuery((gene_symbol:335)) > > The field referenced above, "gene_symbol", is the default search field I set > in schema.xml. Searching against this field alone is not the default search > behavior I would like. What I'd like is that when I search for a term, Solr > should search it against every indexed field. What's the best way to make > that happen? I know one way is to set the default search field to the > catch-all field "text", which gets populated by calling <copyField> for each > document field. However I'm not sure if this is the best way. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; Yuhao <nfsvi...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:57 PM > Subject: Re: Help: nothing is searchable in Solr > > I really, really, really don't like the fact that you have a space in your > field name. Adding &debugQuery=on to your query should show > you the results of parsing the query. What I *expect*, but haven't > tested, is one of two things: > 1> the query parser interprets Entrez ID:335 as something like > defaultsearchfield:Entrez ID:335 > in fact, I'm surprised it doesn't throw an error unless you have > a field named ID...... > 2> you aren't specifying the field in the first place and you're > getting defaultsearchfield:335 > > > Please do yourself a favor and use lowercase and underscores for > your field names, historically, there have been some corner cases > where capitals produce surprising results, in some of the contribs as > I remember.... > > If none of this is the problem, can you post the results of adding > &debugQuery=on to your URL? > > Best > Erick > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Yuhao <nfsvi...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Oops, you're right about the typo! However, after I changed it to: >> >> <field multiValued="false" name="Entrez ID" type="string" indexed="true" >> stored="true" required="true" /> >> >> >> , searching for "335" still returns no result. I did delete the index and >> re-index the documents after the change. Interestingly, adding * to the >> search does produce results, and it seems to be the only way to find >> anything. >> >> * by itself finds 549/757 results. >> *:* finds all 757 results. >> *[a-zA-Z]* finds nothing. >> *[0-9]* finds some results. For example, *33* finds 7 results, but it does >> NOT find the doc with id=335. >> >> >> The results are interesting because I definitely have many indexed fields >> with [a-zA-Z] characters, but nothing at all is found. >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; Yuhao <nfsvi...@yahoo.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:59 PM >> Subject: Re: Help: nothing is searchable in Solr >> >>> For example, I defined a field called "Entrez ID" in my >>> schema.xml file: >>> >>> <field multiValued="false" name="Entrez ID" >>> type="string" index="true" stored="true" required="true" >>> /> >> >> It could be the typo: index="true" should be indexed="true"
