David, Yes. Document grouping (aka field collapsing) will help you here. It should also allow you to create a better search experience on the front end - it's often better to narrow down where in a large document a match is than give users a large doc and say: we know the match is in here somewhere, you just have to locate it now.
Otis Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On Oct 9, 2013 6:21 AM, "Twomey, David" <david.two...@novartis.com> wrote: > OK. Then the JSON returned would contain a lot of documents that are > really sections. This would work fine for the use-case I mentioned but I > also use the index for full-text search of the whole document. Therefore, > I would need to parse the result JSON in a way that combines the solr docs > returned in to one virtual doc based on source document ID. > > Is that correct? > > On 10/9/13 6:15 AM, "Jack Krupansky" <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > > >I'd suggest that each of your source document sections would be a > >distinct > >solr document. All of the sections could have a "source document ID" > >field > >to tie them together. > > > >Dynamic fields work best when used in moderation. Your use case seems > >like > >an excessive use of dynamic fields. > > > >-- Jack Krupansky > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Twomey, David > >Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 6:59 PM > >To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > >Subject: dynamic field question > > > > > >I am having trouble trying to return a particular dynamic field only > >instead > >of all dynamic fields. > > > >Imagine I have a document with an unknown number of sections. Each > >section > >can have a 'title' and a 'body' > > > >I have each section title and body as dynamic fields such as > >section_title_* > >and section_body_* > > > >Imagine that some documents contain a section that has a title="Appendix" > > > >I want a query that will find all docs with that section and return just > >the > >Appendix section. > > > >I don't know how to return just that one section though > > > >I can copyField my dynamic field section_title_* into a static field > >called > >section_titles and query that for docs that contain the Appendix > > > >But I don't know how to only return that one dynamic field > > > >?q=section_titles:Appendix&fl=section_body_* > > > >Any ideas? I can't seem to put a conditional in the fl parameter > > > > > > > >
