> Couldn't I just use the highlighter and configure it to use > the > alternative field to return the first 200 characters? > In cases where > there is a highlighter match I would prefer to show the > excerpts anyway. > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HighlightingParameters#hl.alternateField > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HighlightingParameters#hl.maxAlternateFieldLength > > Is this something wrong with this method?
No, you can do that. It is perfectly fine.
