Hello Brian, Thanks for your answer. It was helpful.
> For your first issue, use a copyField to copy all the text you want > as default to a default search field. Oh, I didn't know I could copy multiple fields to one field :) I didn't quite figure out what copyField was for anyway but I guess this is a good usage. The doc describes the purpose of copyField as: "This is provided as a convenient way to ensure that data is put into several fields, without needing to include the data in the update command multiple times." It sounds like many to many copying. What is the intended use case for this? > For the second, have you looked at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ > DisMaxRequestHandler ? You set up boosts per field in solrconfig.xml > that way. This seems to be able to resolve both of my problems (multiple default search fields and field boost.) If my understanding is correct, it should be a more useful RequestHandler for probably most solr uses. It is not the default though. Is it because it requires some more configuration than the StandardRequestHander? But I'll definitely give it a try. Jack
