I've tried both ways and I still get zero results with this.
Even though name_long:"paisley, ian" will return results.

<str name="fq">name_long:"paisley, ian"</str>
<str name="q">
(constituencies:(ian paisley) OR label:(ian paisley) OR office:(ian
paisley))
</str>


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jack Krupansky <jack@basetechnology.com>wrote:

> You're using query and filter query backwards - the query is what you are
> looking for (the OR), while the filter query is the constraint on the query
> - the drill down.
>
>
> -- Jack Krupansky
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jones
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:38 AM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: OR query
>
>
> Thanks, I've tried doing
>
> <lst name="params">
> <str name="wt">xml</str>
> <str name="fq">
> (constituencies:(ian paisley) OR label:(ian paisley) OR office:(ian
> paisley))
> </str>
> <str name="q">name_long:"paisley, ian"</str>
> </lst>
> </lst>
> <result name="response" numFound="0" start="0"/>
>
> and
>
> <str name="fq">+ian +paisley "paisley, ian"</str>
> <str name="q">name_long:"paisley, ian"</str>
>
> But neither return any results
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Jack Krupansky <jack@basetechnology.com>
> **wrote:
>
>  Use filter queries to filter or drill down:
>>
>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/****CommonQueryParameters#fq<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/**CommonQueryParameters#fq>
>> <http:**//wiki.apache.org/solr/**CommonQueryParameters#fq<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters#fq>
>> >
>>
>>
>> Also consider using dismax/edismax queries, which are designed to match on
>> any of multiple fields.
>>
>> Also be careful to put a space between each left parenthesis and field
>> name since there is a known bug that causes such queries to fail.
>>
>> -- Jack Krupansky
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jones
>> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:24 AM
>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Subject: OR query
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a query that searches through every field to find the text 'london'
>>
>> (constituencies:(london) OR label:(london) OR name:(london) OR
>> office:(london))
>>
>> Which works fine, but when I want to filter my results. Say I want to
>> filter down to constituencies that exactly match 'london', but also search
>> the rest of the fields to make sure that the keyword still matches
>> elsewhere
>>
>> (label:(london) OR name:(london) OR office:(london)) AND
>> (constituencies:"london")
>>
>> Sometimes I get zero results because label, name and office don't have the
>> keyword 'london', but I know constituencies does, so results should be >
>> 0.
>> But if try:
>>
>> (constituencies:(london) OR name:(london) OR office:(london)) AND
>> (label:"london")
>>
>> returns results because constituencies is in one of the OR queries.
>>
>> Is there a way to say if none of the OR quires bring back a result at
>> least
>> search the AND?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>