A simple date range query does not really represent how people query over
time and dates. If you want any form of date queries, above a single
range, then a special field allowing tokenized query will be the only way
to find documents.
A query for 'ever tuesday in november of 2017' would have to
Hi Terry,
let me go in order :
/"Tried creation_date: 2016-11. That's supposed to match
documents with any November 2016 date. But actually produces:
|"Invalid Date String:'2016-11'| "/
Is "*DateRangeField*" the field type for your field : "creation_date" ? [1]
You mentioned :
Yeah, dates are "special".
Those abbreviated dates are for DateRangeField, which is a distinct
type from "TrieDate" in your schema.
bq. And Solr doesn't seem to let me sort on a date field
It's not a date field that's the problem, it's the "multiValued" part.
When you specify in your schema
To me, one of the more frustrating things I've encountered in Solr is
working with date fields. Supposedly, according to the documentation,
this is straightforward. But in my experience, it is anything but
that. In particular, I've found that the abbreviated forms of date
queries, don't work as
