As Jens mentioned you use aliasing for referring to a group of collections. E.g. below command you can create a alias called quarterly for 3 separate collections Jan,Feb & Mar and then you can use alias quarterly to refer all of them in single query
http:// <server>:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATEALIAS&name=Quarterly&collections=Jan,Feb,Mar http:// <server>:8983/solr/Quarterly/select?q=fire&wt=json&indent=true&collection= Quarterly&facet=true&facet.field=docType&rows=300 On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:44 AM, vidya <vidya.nade...@tcs.com> wrote: > Yeah, while querying and indexing also, we can directly use our collection > names. Then what is the use of aliasing ? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/collection-aliasing-tp4252527p4252885.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >