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  1. Solr
  2. SOLR-6074

Field names with colons doesn't work on the query screen on the web UI

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 4.4
    • None
    • Admin UI
    • None
    • linux debian testing / LL(ighthttpd)MP stack with drupal as the web frontend

    Description

      I was looking into a search not working from the frontend and I wanted to check on how the data was inserted. I was unable to run any proper query that provides useful results other than :.

      Even more, when I followed the links from the schema browser from the Top Results for the field I was interested in querying, I was redirected to the query and again no results although there's obviously some because they appear as top results on the search page.

      By speaking with steffkes in #irc, he pointed out that the field name in question had a colon in its name, like:

      "fieldname:name"

      So the search ended up being

      q=fieldname:name:DATA

      He suggested to escape the colon as fieldname\:name, but that made no difference.

      In the end, there was a setting in the drupal plugin I am using (https://drupal.org/project/search_api_solr) that mentioned about cleaning the field ids to remove that colon in the field name, which I tried, and then I coiuld properly use the web ui to query results. New field name is fieldname$name.

      I quote a bit of the README from that module related to this:

      "This will change the Solr field names used for all
      fields whose Search API identifiers contain a colon (i.e., all nested fields)
      to support some advanced functionality, like sorting by distance, for which
      Solr is buggy when using field names with colons.
      "

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              hanoii Ariel Barreiro
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