Solr Query Inside CF 2023 Appears to Give Incorrect Results

[AlexCraig]

OK.

I do a search against my Resumes collection in CF 2023 with the Solr Admin tool using the criteria "medical device" & I get 1325 hits which mirrors what I get from our CF 4.51 producton server..

I do a search inside CF 2023 using the below code & I get 15,574 hits.  This approximately mirrors the number of hits I get on the production side if I do a search for either of the terms medical or device. Edit#1:  It occured to me to do a search inside CF 2023 using the  criteria string "medical" OR "device" and I got precisely 15,574 hits, the same as "medical device"!!  Hmmm ....

So what am I doing wrong?

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<CFSEARCH NAME="applicants_#var#"
COLLECTION="Resumes"
TYPE="standard"
CRITERIA="medical device" >

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[AlexCraig · Accepted solution]

Edit 1:  Well, I spoke too soon.  While the CFSEARCH function is now working properly using combinations of  SOME keywords & phrases, it is still giving bogus results on combinations of keywords & phrases when entering DIFFERENT keywords &/'or DIFFERENT phrases.

The solr admin query tool always give the same results as our production server.

But the CFSEARCH function is still not working properly.  Go figure!

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It took more hours over the course of more days than I like to admit.  Sing Hossanah!!  I finally solved the problem.

With verity we used the following CFSEARCH code on collections.  I.E., there were 2 types of searches available in Verity: "SIMPLE" & "EXPLICIT"

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<CFSEARCH NAME="applicants_#var#"

                                COLLECTION="#verityCollection#_Apps_#var#"

                                TYPE="#Form.verityType#"

                                CRITERIA="#Form.keywords#" >

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The search started working (to a degree)  when I changed it to”

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<CFSEARCH NAME="applicants_#var#"

                                COLLECTION="Resumes"

                                TYPE="standard"

                                CRITERIA="#Form.keywords#" >

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I had changed TYPE to “standard” because that is the default Type for Solr.  I FINALLY noticed that TYPE was not used in the CFSEARCH examples I saw listed for Solr even though TYPE was an optional parameter for Solr searches.

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When I commented out the TYPE line of code as shown below, VIOLA, the searches now mirror the searches on the production machine running using Verity!!!!

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<CFSEARCH NAME="applicants_#var#"

                                COLLECTION="Resumes"

                                <!---TYPE="standard"                    --->

                                CRITERIA="#Form.keywords#" >

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For whatever reason, entering the TYPE parameter was porking some of the searches.