Re: Date search by specific month and day
I've seen this question several times on the list. Perhaps it could be beneficial to create a new Date field that also soupports year-only, year-month, year-month-day etc queries? It could be called ExtendedDateField or something, and when indexing a date -MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ it would individually store multiple versions in the index, perhaps using poly-field? It could work exactly like DateField for full date input, but also allow queries like myDate:2012, myDate:2012-03, myDate:2012-03-05, myDate:[1991 TO 2012] etc. -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com On 24. feb. 2012, at 03:52, Erick Erickson wrote: I think your best bet is to parse out the relevant units and index them independently. But this is probably only a few ints per record, so it shouldn't be much of a resource hog Best Erick On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Kurt Nordstrom kurt.nordst...@unt.edu wrote: Hello all! We have a situation involving date searching that I could use some seasoned opinions on. What we have is a collection of records, each containing a Solr date field by which we want search on. The catch is that we want to be able to search for items that match a specific day/month. Essentially, we're trying to implement a this day in history feature for our dataset, so that users would be able to put in a date and we'd return all matching records from the past 100 years or so. Is there a way to perform this kind of search with only the basic Solr date field? Or would I have parse out the month and day and store them in separate fields at indexing time? Thanks for the help! -Kurt
Date search by specific month and day
Hello all! We have a situation involving date searching that I could use some seasoned opinions on. What we have is a collection of records, each containing a Solr date field by which we want search on. The catch is that we want to be able to search for items that match a specific day/month. Essentially, we're trying to implement a this day in history feature for our dataset, so that users would be able to put in a date and we'd return all matching records from the past 100 years or so. Is there a way to perform this kind of search with only the basic Solr date field? Or would I have parse out the month and day and store them in separate fields at indexing time? Thanks for the help! -Kurt
Re: Date search by specific month and day
I think your best bet is to parse out the relevant units and index them independently. But this is probably only a few ints per record, so it shouldn't be much of a resource hog Best Erick On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Kurt Nordstrom kurt.nordst...@unt.edu wrote: Hello all! We have a situation involving date searching that I could use some seasoned opinions on. What we have is a collection of records, each containing a Solr date field by which we want search on. The catch is that we want to be able to search for items that match a specific day/month. Essentially, we're trying to implement a this day in history feature for our dataset, so that users would be able to put in a date and we'd return all matching records from the past 100 years or so. Is there a way to perform this kind of search with only the basic Solr date field? Or would I have parse out the month and day and store them in separate fields at indexing time? Thanks for the help! -Kurt
