Chris, Thanks for the reply. I'm curious why we want to search one field but highlight different fields? Doesn't it make more sense to only highlight the query fields? In my example, if I search f1, f2, f3, most likely I only want to the searching words in those fields to be highlighted. Of course I can use hl.fl, but I think it make more sense for solr to automatically highlight those fields(rather than the default search field) for us.
Thanks Xuesong -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:33 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: question about highlight field : : So if I need to search a string in field f1, f2, f3 and highlight them : in the response, I have to append hl.fl=f1,f2,f3 to my query. Is this : the only solution? I thought of using searchall field, but the problem : is the highlight element doesn't tell which value belongs to which that's because you are highlighting your "searchall" field ... you can search one field and highlight differnet fields -- but yes, you have to list the fields you want to highlight (Solr can only do some much to "guess" which fields to highlight, and in your case it's not gussing what you want it to) -Hoss
