Re: Ignore records that are missing a value in a field

2011-07-25 Thread Erick Erickson
Hmmm, I think that should be fq=field:[* TO *] since the problem is to include docs with anything in that field. You could also index a special EMPTY_FIELD string and do something like fq=-field:[EMPTY_FIELD].. Best Erick On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Stefan Matheis

Ignore records that are missing a value in a field

2011-07-25 Thread Brian Lamb
Hi all, I have an optional field called common_names. I would like to keep this field optional but at the same, occasionally do a search where I do not include results where there is no value set for this field. Is this possible to do within solr? In other words, I would like to do a search

Re: Ignore records that are missing a value in a field

2011-07-25 Thread Stefan Matheis
So, with other words you want to exlude those records? :) FilterQuery with a Range-Query could help: fq=-field:[* TO *] Regards Stefan Am 25.07.2011 17:53, schrieb Brian Lamb: Hi all, I have an optional field called common_names. I would like to keep this field optional but at the same,