Hi Ahmet, Yes this is the case. I have changed it to reflect your suggestion thank you for this.
After reloading the app I still get the error, here is the full stack trace from catalina.out INFO: [] Registered new searcher Searcher@8af0b0 main 21-Mar-2011 20:28:53 org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: Exception during facet counts:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: undefined field topics at org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema.getField(IndexSchema.java:1077) at org.apache.solr.request.SimpleFacets.getTermCounts(SimpleFacets.java:226) at org.apache.solr.request.SimpleFacets.getFacetFieldCounts(SimpleFacets.java:283) at org.apache.solr.request.SimpleFacets.getFacetCounts(SimpleFacets.java:166) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.FacetComponent.process(FacetComponent.java:72) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:195) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:131) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1316) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:338) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:240) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:164) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:498) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:562) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:394) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:243) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:188) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:302) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) 21-Mar-2011 20:28:53 org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute INFO: [] webapp=/wombra path=/select params={json.wrf=jsonp1300739332983&facet.date.start=1987-02-26T00:00:00.000Z/DAY&facet=true&facet.mincount=1&facet.limit=20&facet.date=date&f.topics.facet.limit=50&json.nl=map&wt=json&q=*:*&_=1300739333613&facet.field=topics&facet.field=organisations&facet.field=exchanges&facet.field=countryCodes&facet.date.gap=%2B1DAY&f.countryCodes.facet.limit=-1&facet.date.end=1987-10-20T00:00:00.000Z/DAY%2B1DAY} hits=21 status=0 QTime=60 ________________________________________ From: Ahmet Arslan [iori...@yahoo.com] Sent: 21 March 2011 20:25 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Implementing Facets Could it be missing dot in <str name="fcountryCodes.facet.limit.">-1</str>? <str name="f.countryCodes.facet.limit">-1</str>? Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474 Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009. http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners. http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html