I've tried both ways and I still get zero results with this. Even though name_long:"paisley, ian" will return results.
<str name="fq">name_long:"paisley, ian"</str> <str name="q"> (constituencies:(ian paisley) OR label:(ian paisley) OR office:(ian paisley)) </str> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > You're using query and filter query backwards - the query is what you are > looking for (the OR), while the filter query is the constraint on the query > - the drill down. > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jones > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:38 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: OR query > > > 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> >> <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 >> >> >