[support] Index reset for a multi-value field in SOLR

[Earnie Boyd]

Does this help? http://bit.ly/19oifGx

I expect the silence is due to the lack of individuals with experience
in the combination on this list.

Earnie

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Kamal Palei <palei.kamal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Many times I have observed when there is a query regarding drupal and
> apachesolr, the drupal mailing list is almost silent. If it is only drupal
> fine, we can do R&D, lot of books, mailing list support, we can get some
> insight. If it is only solr, still we can get help from books, mailing lists
> etc and can proceed.
>
> When it comes to drupal and apachesolr I do not see any good book, not much
> help from mailing list.., its almost simple issues takes very long time to
> resolve.
>
> Various search options, I could not get it done through apachesolr module,
> end up writing custom code to do complex searches (like get the documents
> having mandatory keyword1, keyword2, keyword3 AND optional keywords
> keyword4, keyword5, keyword6 and NOT HAVING keyword keyword7, keyword8 and
> much more....)
>
> Still now I was doing indexing part using apache solr, Now I have a
> requirement, how do we reset the value of a multi-value field in index. I am
> sure, this can be done with few lines of code, but we do not have relevant
> document, or less users work on it  or whatever reason it is definitely a
> pain point....
>
> I request, somebody good at apachesolr module probably write a good book and
> put in packt publish or amazon.., atleast we will have some reference book
> where can get sample example codes.. ,
>
> Best Regards
> Kamal
> Net Cloud Systems
> Bangalore
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Kamal Palei <palei.kamal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All
>> I have added a multi value field in schema file (say skillset). In my
>> _apachesolr_index_document_build hook,   I get all the values of field and
>> do  add to $document using addField api. With this values are indexed and I
>> can search, I get the search result perfect.
>>
>> Just for example purpose, say field name is skillset (it's a multi value
>> field).
>>
>> Say initially I added, Java, PHP, MySQL, Drupal, C++ as skill sets to
>> skillset field as separate separate values.
>>
>> If I search for PHP + MySQL + C++, I get this document. So far so good.
>>
>> Say after 1 month, user came and removed C++ skill set. Then in index, for
>> skillset field the corresponding change should happen. That is first all old
>> values should be removed, next Java, PHP, MySQL, Drupal should added only.
>>
>> Today I do not know how to remove a field's old values, Can somebody help
>> me to find out how do I remove old datas for that particular field
>> (skillset). Today what is happening, I go and add again. Now the resultant
>> data for skillset becomes Java, PHP, MySQL, Drupal, C++, ava, PHP, MySQL,
>> Drupal. Hence if I search c++, I get this document in search which is wrong.
>>
>> Please somebody help me or give me pointer how to delete the old data for
>> a field in index.
>>
>> Please note that in case of single-value field this issue would not arsie.
>>
>> Thanks
>> kamal
>> Net Cloud Systems
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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