Re: Negative boosts

2006-12-14 Thread Derek Watson
If you want documents returned in the same order as a field, it's easy... you sort! If you want the value of a field to influence a score, not determine the exact sort order, you can use FunctionQuery (currently hacked into the query parser as _val_:myfield) That seems like what I want -- boost

Negative boosts

2006-12-14 Thread Derek Watson
Hello, I have been developing a new search application based on Solr (Very nice!) using dismax. We are using query-time boosts to provide better search results for user queries and index-time boosts to promote certain documents over others. My question is about the latter: We have a "position" f