Yeah the lucid imagination articles are great! Jonathan, you can also use the dismax query parser and apply boosts using the qf (query fields) param:
q=my query here&qf=title^0.5 author^0.1 http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler#head-af452050ee272a1c88e2ff89dc0012049e69e180 Matt On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Michel Bottan <freakco...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > I think this is the best article related to faceted search. > > > http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Faceted-Search-Solr > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <jvana...@2xlp.com> > wrote: > > > i've gone through the official docs a few times, and then found some > > offsite stuff of varying quality regarding how-tos. > > > > can anyone here recommend either howtos/tutorials or sample applications > > that they have found worthwhile ? > > > > specifically i'm looking to do the following: > > > > - with regular searching, query the system with a single term, and > > have solr search multiple fields - each one having a different weight > > > In order to search into multiple fields and have a different weight for > each > of them, you could use the Dismax requesthandler and boost each field. > > - use dismax > - boost weights of each field using bq parameter &bq=foofield:term^0.5 > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler#head-6862070cf279d9a09bdab971309135c7aea22fb3 > > > > > > > - implement faceted browsing > > > > i know this is quite easy to do with solr, i'm just not seeing docs that > > resonate with me yet. > > > > thanks! > > > Cheers, > Michel >
