Thanks for the tip, I appreciate it! However, does anyone know how to articulate the syntax of "(This AND That) OR (Something AND Else)" into a query string?
i.e. q=referring:### AND question:### On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Stephen Weiss <swe...@stylesight.com>wrote: > I think in this case you would want to index each question with the > possible referrers ( by title might be too imprecise, I'd go with filename > or ID) and then do a search like this (assuming in this case it's by > filename) > > q=(referring:TomCruise.html) OR (question: Tom AND Cruise) > > Which seems to be what you're thinking. > > I would make the referrer a type "string" though so that you don't > accidentally pull in documents from a different subject (Tom Cruise this > would work ok, but imagine you need to distinguish between George Washington > and George Washington Carver). > > -- > Steve > > > > On Dec 15, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Derek Springer wrote: > > Hey all, >> I'm having trouble articulating a query and I'm hopeful someone out there >> can help me out :) >> >> My situation is this: I am indexing a series of questions that can either >> be >> asked from a main question entry page, or a specific subject page. I have >> a >> field called "referring" which indexes the title of the specific subject >> page, plus the regular question whenever that document is submitted from a >> specific specific subject page. Otherwise, every document is indexed with >> just the question. >> >> Specifically, what I am trying to do is when I am on the page specific >> subject page (e.g. Tom Cruise) I want to search for all of the questions >> asked from that page, plus any question asked about Tom Cruise. Something >> like: >> q=(referring:Tom AND Cruise) OR (question:Tom AND Cruise) >> >> "Have you ever used a Tom Tom?" - Not returned >> "Where is the best place to take a cruise?" - Not returned >> "When did he have is first kid?" - Returned iff question was asked from >> Tom >> Cruise page >> "Do you think that Tom Cruise will make more movies?" - Always returned >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> -Derek >> > >
