Still not understanding. How do I know which words to require while searching? 
I want to search across all documents and return ones that have all of their 
terms matched.


>> I came across the following from ElasticSearch 
>> (http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/percolate/) and it sounds 
>> like this may accomplish the above but haven't tested. I was wondering if 
>> Solr had something similar or an alternative way of accomplishing this?

Also never said this was Percolate, just looked similar

On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:43 AM, "Jack Krupansky" <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote:

> Fine, then write the query that way:  +foo +bar baz
> 
> But it still doesn't sound as if any of this relates to prospective 
> search/percolate.
> 
> -- Jack Krupansky
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Mark
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 2:11 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Percolate feature?
> 
>> "can match a user's query against all the terms in the index" - that's 
>> exactly what Lucene and Solr have done since Day One, for all queries. 
>> Percolate actually does the opposite - matches an input document against a 
>> registered set of queries - and doesn't match against indexed documents.
>> 
>> Solr does support Lucene's "min should match" feature so that you can 
>> specify, say, four query terms  and return if at least two match. This is 
>> the "mm" parameter.
> 
> 
> I don't think you understand me.
> 
> Say I only have one document indexed and it's contents are "Foo Bar". I want 
> this documented returned if and only if the query has the words "Foo" and 
> "Bar" in it. If I use a mm of 100% for "Foo Bar Bazz" this document will not 
> be returned because the full user query didn't match. I i use a 0% mm and 
> search "Foo Baz" the documented will be returned even though it shouldn't.
> 
> On Aug 2, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote:
> 
>> You seem to be mixing a couple of different concepts here. "Prospective 
>> search" or reverse search, (sometimes called alerts) is a logistics matter, 
>> but how to match terms is completely different.
>> 
>> Solr does not have the exact "percolate" feature of ES, but your examples 
>> don't indicate a need for what percolate actually does.
>> 
>> "can match a user's query against all the terms in the index" - that's 
>> exactly what Lucene and Solr have done since Day One, for all queries. 
>> Percolate actually does the opposite - matches an input document against a 
>> registered set of queries - and doesn't match against indexed documents.
>> 
>> Solr does support Lucene's "min should match" feature so that you can 
>> specify, say, four query terms  and return if at least two match. This is 
>> the "mm" parameter.
>> 
>> See:
>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax#mm_.28Minimum_.27Should.27_Match.29
>> 
>> Try to clarify your requirements... or maybe min-should-match was all you 
>> needed?
>> 
>> -- Jack Krupansky
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Mark
>> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 7:50 PM
>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Subject: Percolate feature?
>> 
>> We have a set number of known terms we want to match against.
>> 
>> In Index:
>> "term one"
>> "term two"
>> "term three"
>> 
>> I know how to match all terms of a user query against the index but we would 
>> like to know how/if we can match a user's query against all the terms in the 
>> index?
>> 
>> Search Queries:
>> "my search term" => 0 matches
>> "my term search one" => 1 match  ("term one")
>> "some prefix term two" => 1 match ("term two")
>> "one two three" => 0 matches
>> 
>> I can only explain this is almost a reverse search???
>> 
>> I came across the following from ElasticSearch 
>> (http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/percolate/) and it sounds 
>> like this may accomplish the above but haven't tested. I was wondering if 
>> Solr had something similar or an alternative way of accomplishing this?
>> 
>> Thanks

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