I am guessing that the field is actually just a string or a really long
word. Solr looks for occurrences of the term/token. It does not however
search within a given token without the *. So in your example the system
will not match thisisavery with thisisaverylongtesttitle even though they
have the same starting letters unless you use the * to tell it to.
One option you could explore is the spellchecking option. It takes your
query and "spellchecks" it against a set of words from fields you designate.
If they get close then it may be smart enough to pick up the words they are
trying to use.
--
Jeff Newburn
Software Engineer, Zappos.com
jnewburn@... - 702-943-7562
> From: solenweg <
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> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 03:51:04 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: Search results depending on search word length?
>
>
> New to solr so maybe it's studip question, but here we go:
>
> I've got a long title name like "thisisaverylongtesttitle" and is then doing
> a search for "thisisavery" but with no results. I can with a search for
> "thisisaverylongtit" get the result. But why not with a shorter search
> criteria? Is there a limit somewhere in the config?
>
> Tried using the star operator and that helps, and I get the correct results
> back. But then the score is messed up (always 100%). Can you change this so
> that it keeps its score despite of the star operator, could this be a way to
> go. But how?
>
> Anyone?
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