it sounds to me like the field you're using (artistText) is tokenized
and lowercased. it might be good to go over the wiki pages again:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrFacetingOverview
if you keep having problems, post your schema...cheers,
rob
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Andrew McCombe <eupe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> It has now introduced a new issue. I am now getting results for my
> query but they are not what I wanted. I'm using a Dismax handler and
> am trying to filter a result set with a filter query:
>
> http://localhost:8180/solr/select?indent=on&version=2.2&q=i+love&start=0&rows=30&fl=*%2Cscore&qt=dismax&wt=standard&fq=artistText:e*
>
> This is bringing results with 'e' or 'E' as the first letter and with
> 'e' or 'E' as the first letter after whitespace. e.g, Eric Prydz,
> Marc Et Claude.
>
> Looking at the solr wiki it seems that I am using the fq param to
> boost the results and not filter them. Is there a way to achieve the
> required result, i.e, filtering the result set for all artistText
> beginning with 'E'?
>
> Regards
> Andrew
>
>
>
> 2009/4/30 Andrew McCombe <eupe...@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've sorted it. Wildcard term must be lowercase to get results.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Andrew
>>
>> 2009/4/30 Andrew McCombe <eupe...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have half a million records indexed and need to filter results on a term
>>> by the first letter. For Example the search term is 'I love' and returns a
>>> few thousand records. I need to filter these results for all artists
>>> beginning with 'A'.
>>>
>>> I've tried:
>>> 'fq=artistText:A*'
>>>
>>> But then get no results.
>>>
>>> Can someone point me in the right direction please?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Andrew
>>
>
