If the fields you're querying are of type String (1 token), then you need to escape the whitespace with a backslash, like this:
label:ian\ paisley If they are of type Text (multiple tokens), sometimes you need to explicitly insert "AND" between each token, either with: label:(ian AND paisley) or label:(+ian +paisley) I think this is the case with edismax, which somewhat supports boolean queries but with caveats... You can also turn debugQuery on to figure out why things are not matching. James Dyer E-Commerce Systems Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jones [mailto:michaelj...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:48 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: OR query 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 >> >> >
