Coldfusion (Solr) search behavior

Question

I have this "indexer" template:

<cfquery name="LOCAL.modelli" datasource="xxx">
    SELECT id, name, brand FROM products 
</cfquery>
<cfindex action="refresh" 
         collection="mycoll"
         key="id"
         type="custom"
         title="nome"
         query="LOCAL.modelli"
         body="nome" />

And I am using this code for searching ( #t# is coming from search form field ) :

<cfsearch collection="mycoll" name="LOCAL.ricerca" criteria="#t#" status="LOCAL.searchStatus" suggestions="always" />

Imagine I have this "products" table in DB:

ID | Name |

1 | FRAG 13 |

2 | FOOBAR |

3 | FROGSKIN |

Searching "frog" DOES NOT FIND "Frogskin" !

Instead, it suggests "frag".

Is this behavior normal? Can you explain it to me?

How can I make my search engine find "frogskin", with "frog" as a criteria? (I'd like to avoid doing a SQL query to "products" to enhance results) .

Thank you.

Answer 1

Without using a wildcard, the engine will look for the exact word, "frog"

You need to use a wildcard ? or *. Note that SOLR does not support leading wildcards so *frog would not find bullfrog but frog* should find frogskin

see Solr search examples for more information on searching with SOLR and ColdFusion.