I don't use dismax, but do something similar with a regular query. I have a field defined in my schema.xml called 'dummy' (not sure why its called that actually) but it defaults to 1 on every document indexed. So say I want to give a score bump to documents that have an image, I can do queries like:
q=Some+search+text+AND+(has_image:true^.5 OR dummy:1) I'm doing that from memory haven't actually tested so my syntax may be off, but i hope you get the idea. Basically the first part of the OR query in parenthesis is your optional nested query, if it fails, or even if the document doesn't have a field called has_image at all, the dummy:1 will always pass. Ken -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/optional-nested-queries-tp3128847p3129064.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
