You might look at edismax on the 3.1 and trunk, it calculates scores a bit differently.
You could always just form the query yourself in the app and not use dismax I think. Best Erick On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:06 PM, ronveenstra <ron-s...@agathongroup.com> wrote: > 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. >
