Another option you'll find out there is to use a 'copy field ' to copy the contents of multiple fields into a single indexed field for "universal " searching...
----- Reply message ----- From: "Ahmet Arslan" <iori...@yahoo.com> To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Subject: [External] Re: Query all fields Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012 6:26 pm > Looking at the Solr tutorial I see > queries like: > > q=video&fl=name,id (return only name and id fields) > > Does that query all fields for the word video? No query is executed on default search field. If you add &debugQuery=on to your URL you can see which field is queried. > Is there something specific setup in the solr tutorial that > allows you > to query across all fields? With http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax you can do that. You just need to supply names of fields that you want to search. defType=edismax&qf=description,title,name,etc.
