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" field available at index time that is an integer value, 0 being the 1st position, 1 being the 2nd position, 99 being the hundredth, etc. How do I get Solr to return documents in that same order? Is it possible to apply a negative boost? <doc boost="-0.0">...</doc> <doc boost="-0.1">...</doc> <doc boost="-0.2">...</doc> I notice in the documentation for parseFieldBoosts that the routine "Doesn't care if boost info is negative, you're on your own.", but what does that mean? There is a desire to preserve the order as 0..xx and not reverse it (which would be the obvious choice - x becomes 0, 0 becomes x) because we are adding multiple sets of positions to the index, and I want the first position of each set to be equal (zero). This weighting is important to us for user queries as well as filtered views. Is there another way to get what I'm looking for? Thanks, Derek
