On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:00 PM, fergus mcmenemie <fer...@twig.me.uk> wrote:
> Hello, > > Due to limitations with the way my content is organised and DIH I have > to add “-imgCaption:[* TO *]” to some of my queries. I discovered the > name=”appends” functionality tucked away inside solconfig.xml. This > looks a very useful feature, and I created a new requestHandler to deal > with my problem queries. I tried adding the following to my alternate > requestHandler:- > > <lst name="appends"><str name="q">-imgCaption:[* TO *]</str></lst> > > which did not work; however > > <lst name="appends"><str name="fq">-imgCaption:[* TO *]</str></lst> > "appends" parameters are appended to the request parameters. An existing q parameter might be overriding it. Also, I'm not sure if pure negative queries are supported in the q parameter. You might need to do *:* AND -imgCaption:[* TO *] instead. I do remember that negative queries in fq work. > > worked fine and is also more efficient. I guess I was caught by the > “identify values which should be appended to the list of ***multi-val > params**** from the query” portion of the comment within solconfig.xml. > I am now wondering how do I know which query params are "multi-val" or > not? Is this documented anywhere? > For example, "fq", "facet.field" etc are multi-valued since multiple such params can be specified in the same request. "q" is single-valued. You can look through the "Input Parameters" section on the wiki front page for more details. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
