I have a sizable index with a main "content" field, and 5 defined boost fields (boost_low, boost_med, boost_high, boost_max, and boost_neg). The idea and hope was to allow searches on the content field to be influenced/boosted by the boosting fields if the search term was present.
I had set up a dismax query with a "qf' setting that boosted the content field significantly, and the 5 boost fields with descending values. (e.g. content^5.0 boost_max^1.2 boost_high^1.0 etc...) After some testing and reading, I'm of the understanding that this setup will result search the fields (content and boost fields), and apply the boost to each, then choose the field with the highest score as the score for that result (essentially taking the MAX() score from the various fields, and not the SUM() of the fields' scores.) If this is the case, is there an alternate setup, config item, or means of combining these scores to return a SUM() score instead? Any direction or help would be most appreciated. Ron -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Using-Boost-fields-for-a-sum-total-score-tp2958968p2958968.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
