I'm grateful to elyograg and erikhatcher on the #solr IRC for helping me with this question. They first pointed me to the Edismax documentation's boost parameter at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax#bf_.28Boost_Function.2C_additive.29 and asked me to put the following in my solrconfig.xml where I define my request handler:
<str name="bf">log(qty)</str> This worked perfectly for me. Thanks again. O. O. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Setting-of-Default-Boost-in-Edismax-Search-Handler-tp4161122p4161320.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
