Solr only returning exact matches - search

I finally got my Solr working. It indexes posts and I can search it from my site. I have run into one problem though.
If I have an entry as "England", when I search "England" on my site, or "england" I get the result returned. When I search "Eng" it tells me there are no results. I dont want people to have to put in *'s for queries.
My question is this, how do I make it so it doesn't have to be an exact match for results to be returned.

To achieve this type of search behavior, you will need to implement the EdgeNGramFilterFactory

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Can someone help me understand Solr search behaviour in this case?

Query is this :- (Profisee)
Indexed Field has the exact same token as in the above input query. But Solr search is giving zero results.
If Query is this :- (Profisee
Then I am able to find the document in the result.
P.S: I am able to get the document result for (Pro, (Profi, (Profise etc queries also.
Here are the attached images.
Exact Query No Result
Inexact Query Got Result
Here is my schema.xml definition for the fieldtype
First, please include the relevant details in your question next time, as images are hard to search, makes it hard to get the overview of your question and is hard to read for those that doesn't have perfect vision.
For your actual question, the problem is that you have a WhitespaceTokenizer. This will only break words on whitespace, such as . The indexed document contains your term as (foo), which means that only (foo) will match (since the tokenizer only breaks on whitespace, and ( or ) isn't whitespace).
foo (bar) will be indexed as two tokens, foo and (bar). Searching for (bar will match neither.
Use the StandardTokenizer to get the behaviour you want, or use a WordDelimiterGraphFilterFactory to break the word into further tokens.

Force document(s) into SOLR search results

Is there a way to force specific documents into SOLR search results?
I'm trying something like this but is not working:
/q=id:21321 OR myNormalSearchConditionsHereIncludingDismaxQUery
My goal is to have certain documents always show up in some search results, no matter what the query is.
you can use Solr MoreLikeThis component
This is just a quick thought i would make from your description.
With this you will no longer require a second query and caching the results.

Honoring previous searches in the next search result in solr

I am using solr for searching. I wants to improve my search result quality based on previously searched terms. Suppose, I have two products in my index with names 'Jewelry Crystal'(say it belongs to Group 1) & 'Compound Crystal'(say it belongs to Group 2). Now, if we query for 'Crystal', then both the products will come.
Let say, if I had previously searched for 'Jewelry Ornament', then I searches for 'Crystal', then I expects that only one result ('Jewelry Crystal') should come. There is no point of showing 'Compound Crystal' product to any person looking for jewelry type product.
Is there any way in SOLR to honour this kind of behavior or is there any other method to achieve this.
First of all, there's nothing built-in in Solr to achive this. What you need for this is some kind of user session, which is not supported by Solr, or a client side storage like a cookie or something for the preceding query.
But to achive the upvote you can use a runtime Boost Query.
Assuming you're using the edismax QueryParser, you can add the following to your Solr query:
q=Crystal&boost=bq:(Jewelry Ornament)
See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax#bq_.28Boost_Query.29

How can I retrieve meta information about synonym matches for a Solr query?

We are using Solr to provide search functionality for our site, and I have the following requirement which has me stumped:
Given the search term "2011 Bolinger", identify that "Bollinger" (note the different spelling) is a valid value for the Producer facet, and automatically apply facet filtering for this value.
It's the fuzzy matching of the search term which I'm stuck on. Does anyone know of a way to include information in a Solr response about synonym matches which have occurred for a query during the search (i.e. a way for Solr to tell me that it saw the word 'Bollinger' in a document and recognised it as equivalent to 'Bolinger')? From what I've read so far of the Solr documentation I can't see a way to do this, but I may have missed something.

How to implement faceted search suggestion with number of relevant items in Solr?

Hi
I have a very specific need in my company for the system's search engine, and I can't seem to find a solution.
We have a SOLR index of items, all of them have the same fields, with one of the fields being "Type", (And ofcourse, "Title", "Text", and so on).
What I need is: I get an Item Type and a Query String, and I need to return a list of search suggestion with each also saying how meny items of the correct type will that suggested string return.
Something like, if the original string is "goo" I'll get
Goo 10
Google 52
Goolag 2
and so on.
now, How do I do it?
I don't want to re-query SOLR for each different suggestion, but if there is no other way, I just might.
Thanks in advance
you can try edge n-gram tokenization
http://search.lucidimagination.com/search/document/CDRG_ch05_5.5.6
You can try facets. Take a look at my more detailed description ('Autocompletion').
This was implemented at http://jetwick.com with Solr ... now using ElasticSearch but the Solr sources are still available and the idea is also the identical https://github.com/karussell/Jetwick
The SpellCheckComponent of Solr (that gives the suggestions) have extended results that can give the frequency of every suggestion in the index - http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpellCheckComponent#Extended_Results.
However, the .Net component SolrNet, does not currently seem to support the extendedResults option: "All of the SpellCheckComponent parameters are supported, except for the extendedResults option" - http://code.google.com/p/solrnet/wiki/SpellChecking.
This is implemented using a facet field query with a Prefix set. You can test this using the xml handler like this:
http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?rows=0&facet=true&facet.field=type&f.type.prefix=goo

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