Wildcard patterns work on dates if they are "string" fields.
If your dates are "trie" dates (the default "date" field type now), you
would need to do a copyField to a string field to do the wildcard match.
Examples:
????-05-12*
2010-??-12*
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Cougarman
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 9:03 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Partial date searches
Hi. We're using Solr 4.0Beta and wondered how we can perform partial date
searches. For example, we have this date stored in the index:
<date name="my_date">2010-05-12T00:00:00Z</date>
The user may want to search on all documents from 05-12 without providing
the year. Or the user may want to search on 2010-xx-12 where the day isn't
known but the month and year are known. Is this possible? Is there a sample
search we can run in the admin interface against our index? Thanks.
Warm regards,
Alex Cougarman
Bahá'í World Centre
Haifa, Israel
Office: +972-4-835-8683
Cell: +972-54-241-4742
acoug...@bwc.org
