: I think the point is that Viaj would like to permit users to specify the : field if they so choose.
Ah... gotcha. that would fall somewhere along the lines of SOLR-405. Although as i said in my comment there: at a minimum we need ot make it smart enough to "do the right" thing both when the field exists and when it doesn't; but ideally we should support field aliasing so query strings can contain field names you want the user to see, regardless of which field(s) each of those names really corrisponds to. -Hoss
