Thanks a lot for that! I wanted to use dismax but hit a wall because I require trailing wildcards in some instances. Methods 1 and 3 do not work in my case. However upon further thinking I realized in the cases I required wildcard I'm only searching one field. So I'll just turn dismax on and off as required.
Thanks again :) On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Ken Stanley <doh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/11/17 Jón Helgi Jónsson <jonjons...@gmail.com>: >> I'm using index time boosting and need to specify every field I want >> to search (not use copy fields) or else the boosting wont work. >> >> This query with 1 saerchterm works fine, boosts look good: >> >> http://localhost:8983/solr/select/? >> q=companyName:foo >> +descriptionTxt:verslun >> &fl=*%20score&rows=10&start=0 >> >> However if I have 2 words in the query and do it like this boosting >> seems not to be working >> >> http://localhost:8983/solr/select/? >> q=companyName:foo+bar >> +descriptionTxt:foo+bar >> &fl=*%20score&rows=10&start=0 >> >> Its probably using the default search field for the second word which >> has no boosting configured. How do I go about this? >> >> Thanks, >> Jon >> > > Jon, > > You have a few options here, depending on what you want to achieve > with your query: > > 1. If you're trying to do a phrase query, you simply need to ensure > that your phrases are quoted. The default behavior in SOLR is to split > the phrase into multiple chunks. If a word is not preceded with a > field definition, then SOLR will automatically apply the word(s) as if > you had specified the default field. So for your example, SOLR would > parse your query into companyName:foo defaultField:bar > descriptionTxt:foo defaultField:bar. > 2. You can use the dismax query plugin instead of the standard query > plugin. You simply configure the dismax section of your solrconfig.xml > to your liking - you define which fields to search, apply any special > boosts for your needs, etc > (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxQParserPlugin) - and then you > simply feed the query terms without naming your fields (i.e., > q=foo+bar), along with telling SOLR to use dismax (i.e., > qt=whatever_you_named_your_dismax_handler). > 3. If phrase queries are not important to you, you can manually prefix > each term in your query with the field you wish to search; for > example, you would do companyName:foo companyName:bar > descriptionTxt:foo descriptionTxt:bar. > > Whichever way you decide to go, the best thing that you can do to > understand SOLR and how it's working in your environment is to append > debugQuery=on to the end of your URL; this tells SOLR to output > information about how it parsed your query, how long each component > took to run, and some other useful debugging information. It's very > useful, and has come in handy several times here where I'm at when I > wanted to know why SOLR returned the results (or didn't return) that I > expected. > > I hope this helps. > > - Ken >
