A free text option would be really nice. When our users type "mission:impossible", they are not searching a field named "mission".
wunder On 9/11/08 4:39 PM, "Chris Hostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : I think the point is that Viaj would like to permit users to specify the > : field if they so choose. > > Ah... gotcha. that would fall somewhere along the lines of SOLR-405. > > Although as i said in my comment there: at a minimum we need ot make it > smart enough to "do the right" thing both when the field exists and when > it doesn't; but ideally we should support field aliasing so query strings > can contain field names you want the user to see, regardless of which > field(s) each of those names really corrisponds to. > > -Hoss
