: I have elements within a field that have different importance. : I thought boosting would be an elegant way to take this into account. : Please advise,
typically if you know when sending hte doc to solr that certian words/phrases of field A are extremely significant for that document, the simple approach is to also put those words/phrases in some other field "B" and at query time search both A and B .. since B tends to have less words anyway, itmakes more of an impact on teh results, but if you want those words to be *really* important boost your queries on B. The dismax handler makes quering across these multiple fields very easy. -Hoss
