Thanks, I've tried doing <lst name="params"> <str name="wt">xml</str> <str name="fq"> (constituencies:(ian paisley) OR label:(ian paisley) OR office:(ian paisley)) </str> <str name="q">name_long:"paisley, ian"</str> </lst> </lst> <result name="response" numFound="0" start="0"/>
and <str name="fq">+ian +paisley "paisley, ian"</str> <str name="q">name_long:"paisley, ian"</str> But neither return any results On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > Use filter queries to filter or drill down: > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/**CommonQueryParameters#fq<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters#fq> > > Also consider using dismax/edismax queries, which are designed to match on > any of multiple fields. > > Also be careful to put a space between each left parenthesis and field > name since there is a known bug that causes such queries to fail. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jones > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:24 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: OR query > > > Hi, > > I have a query that searches through every field to find the text 'london' > > (constituencies:(london) OR label:(london) OR name:(london) OR > office:(london)) > > Which works fine, but when I want to filter my results. Say I want to > filter down to constituencies that exactly match 'london', but also search > the rest of the fields to make sure that the keyword still matches > elsewhere > > (label:(london) OR name:(london) OR office:(london)) AND > (constituencies:"london") > > Sometimes I get zero results because label, name and office don't have the > keyword 'london', but I know constituencies does, so results should be > 0. > But if try: > > (constituencies:(london) OR name:(london) OR office:(london)) AND > (label:"london") > > returns results because constituencies is in one of the OR queries. > > Is there a way to say if none of the OR quires bring back a result at least > search the AND? > > Thanks >
