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Asked: 2026-06-04T12:37:04+00:00

I have a Drupal 7 website that is running apachesolr search and is using

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I have a Drupal 7 website that is running apachesolr search and is using faceting through the facetapi module.

When I use the facets to narrow my searches, everything works perfectly and I can see the filters being added to the search URL, so I can copy them as links (ready-made narrowed searches) elsewhere on the site.

Here is an example of how the apachesolr URL looks after I select several facets/filters:

search_url/search_keyword?f[0]=im_field_tag_term1%3A1&f[1]=im_field_tag_term2%3A100

Where the ‘search_keyword‘ portion is the text I’m searching for and the ‘%3A‘ is just the url encoded ‘:’ (colon).

Knowing this format, I can create any number of ready-made searches by creating the correct format for the URL. Perfect!

However, these filters are always ANDed, the same way they are when using the facet interface. Does anyone know if there is a syntax I can use, specifically in the search URL, to OR my filters/facets? Meaning, to make it such that the result is all entries that contains EITHER of the two filters?

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers in the right direction!

New edit:

I do know how to OR terms within the same vocabulary through the URL, I’m just wondering how to do it for terms in different vocabularies. 😉

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  1. Editorial Team

    I finally found a way to do this in Drupal

    Enable the fq parameter setting.

    • Go to admin/config/search/apachesolr/[your_search_page]/core_search/edit or just navigate to the settings of the search page you’re trying to modify

    • Check the ‘Allow user input using the URL’ setting

    URL Syntax

    • Add the following at the end of the URL: ?fq=tid:(16 OR 38), where 16 and 38 are the term ids
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