Hello I'd say it's expected if a title is a unique non-tokenized string. May you trace the debugQuery response or logs?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM Dmitri Maziuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > quick question: is MLT supposed to work on string fields? Over here > (8.11) it works on text fields and on multi-valued string fields but not > on single-valued ones. E.g. > > `q={!mlt qf=title mintf=0 mindf=0}$SOMEDOCID` - no hits > `q={!mlt qf=description mintf=0 mindf=0}$SOMEDOCID` - yes hits > `q={!mlt qf=county mintf=0 mindf=0}$SOMEDOCID` - yes hits > > where "title" is a single-valued string field, description is a > text_general, and county is a multi-valued string -- none of them have > termVectors. > > Am i missing something? -- I'm not seeing anything in TFM about this. > > TIA, > Dima > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev
