Perhaps a silly question, but it's amazing how many of my problems turn out to be something I do to myself...
Are you sorting on anything other than score? Best Erick On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Mark Fletcher <mark.fletcher2...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I use *dismax* and have specified my fields to be boosted in the qf > parameter in solrconfig.xml. What I understand is that in the search URL > also I can specify these qf value by doing the addition &qf=field1^100 > field2^200 which can override the boost specified to each field in > solrconfig.xml. But when I change the boosts like this in my URL for the > various fields, I still don't > find any difference at all in the order in which the results are coming. I > have many fields specified in qf. I changed their boost by changing say * > field1^2.0* to *field1^1000 *in the query URL but I find no change in the > order in which the results still come. > > Is there any problem in using the qf parameter like this as part of the > query URL and varying the boosts (relevancy) to check how the order of > results vary. My aim is to see how the results would change if I boosted > some fields more from others or the viceversa of decreased boost of some > fields compared to others. > > Could some one pls help! > > Thanks. > Mark. >
