I think the key was change the tie to 0. I had it at 0.1. Getting exactly what I want now.
Big thanks for the help. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Chaffee [mailto:jchaf...@ebates.com] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 5:20 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: negative boost I understand that it defeats the reason for dismax, at least the original reason for dismax. However, if I can do it this way without having to write my own handler because I need to search multiple fields and combine the results, then it is still preferable and thus another way to leverage dismax. Thanks for the tip. I will try it. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 5:06 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: negative boost : Unfortunately, my results aren't quite what I want unless I use 0 on the : second field. Instead, if something matches in all the fields it is : elevated to the top. I only want the first field match elevated to the : top and I want all first field matches to have the same weight. Next, I : want all field2 matches to have the same weight, and finally, I want all : field3 matches to have the same weight. But I want field1 matches to be : at the top, then field 2, and finally field3. I don't care if the term : is all three fields or not. try qf=field1^10000+field2^100+field3^1&tie=0 : Does this make sense? it does, but it kind of defeats the point of dismax. what i cited should help -- the key is to make the boosts vastly differnet scales, and eliminate the tiebreaker value. -Hoss
