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Alfresco and Solr filter query support.

dantuffery — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:22:55 GMT

Hi,I've added some customisations to the Alfresco/Solr code (4.0 enterprise) to support filter queries. I have created a custom field using the copy field pattern in the schema.xml, the type of the custom field is 'string' as I need a verbatim copy of the field. In CoreTracker I can see the field i

Re: Alfresco and Solr filter query support.

andy — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:02:51 GMT

Hi

We should add filter queries.
Sometimes you miss the obvious!

Extending your schema has lost how the locale is processed in Alfresco.
You would need tokenisation that stripped it.

You would be better making your property dual tokenised "both" or tokenised "false" in your data model
You can then filter using = for exact and ~ for FTS matching

Andy

Re: Alfresco and Solr filter query support.

dantuffery — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:50:04 GMT

Thanks Andy.

I managed to getting it working by using the Lucene query parser instead of the Alfresco query parser.

fq={!lucene}myField:blah‍

Are you planning to release any documentation on the Alfresco and Solr implementation?

Dan