I have also wanted to use the very cool DisMax query handler but was dismayed that it prevented me from using Solr/Lucene's full syntax capability. So I took matters into my own hands and modified the source. I have patches available:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-756 757 and 758 ~ David On 9/11/08 10:28 AM, "Vaijanath N. Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Solr-Users, > > I am using DisMaxHandler in my application and I am facing one issue. > The DisMaxHandler works fine for general queries but returns no result > if I do fielded search. > For example > for query > a) q=xyz&qt=dismax returns me the required results > but if I do > b) q=field1:xyz+xyz&qt=dismax it returns me zero result. > > Is there anyway I get results for the query type b but still use the > DisMaxHandler. > > --Thanks and Regards > Vaijanath >