Are you using the field name suffixes like Blacklight? xxx_text, _xxx_facet, xxx_string? With the xxx_string field you can request "begins with" search, but you may need some different search term normalization than with a _text search.

Gerald Snyder
Florida Center for Library Automation


Bernadette Houghton wrote:
We need to offer "begins with" type searches, e.g. a search for "surname, f" will retrieve "surname, 
firstname", "surname, f", "surname fm" etc.

Ideally, the user would be able to enter something like "surname f*".

However, wildcards don't work on phrase searches, nor do range searches.

Any suggestions as to how best to search for "begins with" phrases; or, how to 
best configure solr to support such searches?

TIA
Bernadette Houghton, Library Business Applications Developer
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