Re: Using Boost fields for a sum total score.

2011-05-20 Thread ronveenstra
Bill (et al.) : The issue I'm running into (apologies for explaining it poorly previously) is how to reference the query term in the definition of "bf" in solrconfig. e.g. I can statically define the search term (in this case "love") in solrconfig.xml, and results are as I desire: dismax c

Re: Using Boost fields for a sum total score.

2011-05-19 Thread ronveenstra
Apologies if this is obvious, but I've been banging my head against a wall. I can define a query like the following: http://HOST_NAME/solr/select?q=$search_term&bq=boost_high:$search_term^1.5&bq=boost_medium:$search_term^1.3&bq=boost_max:$search_term^1.7&bq=boost_low:$search_term^1.1 This does p

Using Boost fields for a sum total score.

2011-05-18 Thread ronveenstra
I have a sizable index with a main "content" field, and 5 defined boost fields (boost_low, boost_med, boost_high, boost_max, and boost_neg). The idea and hope was to allow searches on the content field to be influenced/boosted by the boosting fields if the search term was present. I had set up