: I have a field. The field has a sentence. If the user types in a word : or a phrase, how can I return the index of this word or the index of : the first word of the phrase? : I tried to use &bf=ord..., but it does not work as i expected.
for basic queries (term, phrase, etc...) position information is not available for the patched doucments ... you can use highlighting to re-compute where matches occured, but the accuracy of that information depends a lot on what your field type, query, and highligher options look like. i don't believe we have any Highlighter options thta will just give you back the position information -- but one could be added. for *true* positional matching info, there are the "Span" family of queries, which can actually return the exact information -- but there is no native query parser support for Spam queries in Solr, so you would need to customize your QParser to get that information. -Hoss
