"Search query is not valid"

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Snickers

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:22:04 PM3/27/23

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Hi Team,

We are running Dspace 7.3 and having an issue using ":" in search field. I have done some search and edited solr and dspace configs but nothing seems to work. I won't put them here to avoid confusion for now.

Is there a way to allow colon (:) in the search field?

Regards,

Bryan

Tim Donohue

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Mar 28, 2023, 10:50:17 AM3/28/23

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Hi Bryan,

The colon is a reserved character in Solr (which the search engine uses). But you should be able to escape it by simply surrounding it with quotes.

So, if you search "My Title: my latest paper" (with the quotes!) that should work to search by the colon. However, if you don't include the quotes, then a field-based search will try to run. For more information on using search in DSpace 7, see the docs at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Search+-+Advanced