I think I got it to work. If I do a wildcard search using the dc3.title field it seems to work fine (dc3.title:c*). The dc.title:c* returns every title that has a word in it that starts with 'c', which isn't exactly what I wanted. I'm guessing it's because of the type="caseInsensitiveSort".
Well, here is my schema for reference. Thanks for your help. - <schema name="example" version="1.1"> - <types> <fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true" /> - <!-- boolean type: "true" or "false" --> <fieldType name="boolean" class="solr.BoolField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="integer" class="solr.IntField" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="long" class="solr.LongField" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="float" class="solr.FloatField" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="double" class="solr.DoubleField" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="sint" class="solr.SortableIntField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="slong" class="solr.SortableLongField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="sfloat" class="solr.SortableFloatField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="sdouble" class="solr.SortableDoubleField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true" /> <fieldType name="date" class="solr.DateField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true" /> - <fieldType name="text_ws" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> - <analyzer> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory" /> </analyzer> </fieldType> - <fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> - <analyzer type="index"> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory" /> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" /> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" /> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" /> <filter class="solr.EnglishPorterFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt" /> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory" /> </analyzer> - <analyzer type="query"> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory" /> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true" /> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" /> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0" /> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" /> <filter class="solr.EnglishPorterFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt" /> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory" /> </analyzer> </fieldType> - <fieldType name="textTight" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> - <analyzer> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory" /> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="false" /> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" /> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="0" generateNumberParts="0" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" /> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" /> <filter class="solr.EnglishPorterFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt" /> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory" /> </analyzer> </fieldType> - <fieldType name="caseInsensitiveSort" class="solr.TextField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"> - <analyzer> <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory" /> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" /> <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" /> </analyzer> </fieldType> <fieldtype name="ignored" stored="false" indexed="false" class="solr.StrField" /> </types> - <fields> - <!-- Fedora specific fields --> <field name="PID" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="fgs.state" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="fgs.label" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="fgs.ownerId" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="fgs.createdDate" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="fgs.lastModifiedDate" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="fgs.contentModel" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="fgs.type" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> - <!-- DC Fields --> <field name="dc.contributor" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.coverage" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.creator" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.date" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.description" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.format" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.identifier" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.language" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.publisher" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.relation" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.rights" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.source" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.subject" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc.title" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" omitnorms="true" /> <field name="dc.type" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.contributor" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.coverage" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.creator" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.date" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.description" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.format" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.identifier" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.language" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.publisher" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.relation" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.rights" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.source" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.subject" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.title" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc2.type" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc3.creator" type="caseInsensitiveSort" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc3.subject" type="caseInsensitiveSort" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="dc3.title" type="caseInsensitiveSort" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="timestamp" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true" default="NOW" multiValued="false" /> <dynamicField name="*_i" type="sint" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_s" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_l" type="slong" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_t" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_b" type="boolean" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_f" type="sfloat" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_d" type="sdouble" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_dt" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="fgs.*" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <dynamicField name="dsm.*" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <dynamicField name="rdf.*" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> </fields> <uniqueKey>PID</uniqueKey> <defaultSearchField>fgs.label</defaultSearchField> <solrQueryParser defaultOperator="OR" /> <copyField source="dc.contributor" dest="dc2.contributor" /> <copyField source="dc.coverage" dest="dc2.coverage" /> <copyField source="dc.creator" dest="dc2.creator" /> <copyField source="dc.date" dest="dc2.date" /> <copyField source="dc.description" dest="dc2.description" /> <copyField source="dc.format" dest="dc2.format" /> <copyField source="dc.identifier" dest="dc2.identifier" /> <copyField source="dc.language" dest="dc2.language" /> <copyField source="dc.publisher" dest="dc2.publisher" /> <copyField source="dc.relation" dest="dc2.relation" /> <copyField source="dc.rights" dest="dc2.rights" /> <copyField source="dc.source" dest="dc2.source" /> <copyField source="dc.subject" dest="dc2.subject" /> <copyField source="dc.title" dest="dc2.title" /> <copyField source="dc.type" dest="dc2.type" /> <copyField source="dc.subject" dest="dc3.subject" /> <copyField source="dc.title" dest="dc3.title" /> <copyField source="dc.creator" dest="dc3.creator" /> </schema> Vincent Vu Nguyen Division of Science Quality and Translation Office of the Associate Director for Science Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 404-498-6154 Century Bldg 2400 Atlanta, GA 30329 -----Original Message----- From: Ranveer [mailto:ranveer.s...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:31 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: simple question from a newbie I think you using wild-card search or should use wild-card search. but first of all please provide the schema and configuration file for more details. regards Ranveer On Wednesday 28 July 2010 07:51 PM, Nguyen, Vincent (CDC/OSELS/NCPHI) (CTR) wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm new to Solr and have a rather dumb question. I want to do a query > that returns all the Titles that start with a certain letter. For > example > > > > I have these titles: > > Results of in-mine research in support > > Cancer Reports > > State injury indicators report > > Cancer Reports > > Indexed dermal bibliography > > Childhood agricultural-related injury report > > Childhood agricultural injury prevention > > > > > > I want the query to return: > > Cancer Reports > > Cancer Reports > > Childhood agricultural-related injury report > > Childhood agricultural injury prevention > > > > I want something like dc.title=c* type query > > > > I know that I can facet by dc.title and then use the parameter > facet.prefix=c but it returns something like this: > > Cancer Reports [2] > > Childhood agricultural-related injury report [1] > > Childhood agricultural injury prevention [1] > > > > > > Vincent Vu Nguyen > Division of Science Quality and Translation > > Office of the Associate Director for Science > Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) > 404-498-6154 > Century Bldg 2400 > Atlanta, GA 30329 > > > > >
