Search in custom fields

[Jozef Chocholacek, modificado hace 9 años.]

Hello everybody!

Environment
Liferay: 6.1 (EE)
Solr-web: Solr Search Engine EE 1.0.2
Solr: 1.4

Situation
My customer uses tags to add to users "areas of interest" and "areas of expertise". Because tags are not index by default(?), I wrote my own UserIndexerPostProcessor to add my custom fields to the index.

document.addText(AREAS_OF_INTEREST, StringUtil.merge(interestsTags, ", "));

I also added two new fields into the schema.xml in both Solr and solr-web plugin (because without them weren't my custom fields tokenized):

<field name="areasOfExpertise" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" />
<field name="areasOfInterest" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" />

I've regenerated my search indexes, and when I search for a keyword (e.g. "intranet") direct in Solr

http://my.solr.server:8980/solr/select?q=areasOfExpertise:intranet&rows=10

I am getting some (seemingly correct) results. Anyway, when I put the same keyword into Liferay search field, I am not getting the same users as direct from Solr. I get some users, but only if they have the keyword in their position name (or other standard property).

When I capture the request the Liferay sends to Solr and try it direct from browser, I am also getting incorrect results - so the problem lies (IMHO) in the way how Liferay constructs the query. I have added

@Override
public void postProcessFullQuery(BooleanQuery fullQuery, SearchContext searchContext) throws Exception {
    fullQuery.addTerm(AREAS_OF_EXPERTISE, searchContext.getKeywords());
    fullQuery.addTerm(AREAS_OF_INTEREST, searchContext.getKeywords());
}

to my UserIndexerPostProcessor, but it didn't help.

EDIT: when I type in Liferay search field areasOfExpertise:intranet, then I see the correct results, i.e. the same results as with direct Solr query (http://my.solr.server:8980/solr/select?q=areasOfExpertise:intranet&rows=10). But I need these results to come without specifying the field name, too.


Any hints/ideas/RTFM pointers?


Thanks,

Jozef.

[Vilmos Papp, modificado hace 9 años.]

Hi Jozef,

I think, probably the assetTagNames field should be checked in your case.

E.g.: You have the following tags: "intranet", "library", "internet"

Then assetTagNames:"intranet" should return the proper resutls imho.

Regards,
Vilmos