: But i am not finding any effect in my search results. do i need to do some : more configuration to see the effect.
posting the solrcofing.xml section for your dismax handler is helpful, start, but to provide any meaninful assistance to you we need a lot more info then just that... * an example of hte URL you are using so we can see what params you are sending at query time * the scores & ids of docs that you don't feel are being returned in the order you think they should * the score explanation output for those docs using debugQuery=true (and if needed: explainother) so we can see what kinds of scores are being computed for various docs and why and help you understand that same output to make any changes as needed.. -Hoss
