Hi all -
I am trying to figure out if a particular use case is possible with solr. Let's
say we are using solr to store a group of people and the universities they
attended. We have four fields - NAME, PHD to house the name of the university
they received a phd degree from, MASTERS to house the name of the university
they received a masters from and BACHELORS to house the university the received
a bachelors from. We also want to give a really big boost to matches for the
PHD field (100), a big boost for matches to the MASTERS field (50) and a small
boost to matches for the BACHELORS field (10). If someone attended the same
university for all three degrees, we only want to use the score for the highest
boost, the PHD field. The desired net result would be a search for 'Stanford'
would boost documents the same for someone that received a PHD from Stanford as
someone that received a PHD, a MASTERS and a BACHELORS from Stanford. We don't
want the boosted score of all three fields to be used so simply adding all the
boosted fields won't work. Is this possible and if so, what's the best way? A
boost function using subqueries?
Many thanks in advance,
Brian
