Advanced Search with Solr Search plugin

[Anneliese Dehner]

Has anyone built out the Solr Search plugin to enable advanced searching?

The facets are great, but they require exact matching. I'd like to add the ability to do keyword searches within a specific field or fields...

 "field x" contains "my search term"

It looks like the solr field names are concatenated something like this: element-text-id_t

So I tried constructing a query string with this structure:

.../solr-search?q=60_t:my search term

But I can't get any query strings to work, so I'm definitely missing something(s).

Any pointers are very much appreciated.

Thanks!

Anneliese

p.s. I did inquire about advanced search on the plugin git hub page, but have yet to receive a response. So I'm hoping some/one of you can provide the missing link!

[Anneliese Dehner]

Hello again,

I'm trying to construct a pre-filtered query string to work with the Omeka Solr Search plugin. And I'm wondering if I need to modify schema.xml or another plugin file to get something like the following to work...

/solr-search?q=63_s:Frankfort+AND+62_s:1864

site url, for reference:

http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/

Thanks,

Anneliese

[John Flatness]

I'm not well-versed in the workings of the SolrSearch plugin, but it
looks to me like the plugin's controller specifically filters out colons
in the search term, preventing you from doing what you're trying, at
least in the "q" parameter.

https://github.com/scholarslab/SolrSearch/blob/master/controllers/ResultsController.php#L119

-John

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[Anneliese Dehner]

Thanks for your eyes and reply John!

Commenting out the line in ResultsController.php and changing my structure to....

/solr-search?q=63_t:Frankfort+AND+62_t:1864

does the trick!!!

Most excellent.

Thank you.

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[Sarah W]

It seems like you can run the query with facets:

http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/solr-search?facet=62_s:1864+AND+65_s:Note

worked for me.

[Anneliese Dehner]

Thanks Sarah! This is true. 

However, I am interested in doing a keyword search within a field rather than finding exact matches...

I'm going for "date of creation" contains "1864"

instead of "date of creation" is exactly "1864"