Define "not working". Show what you're getting and what you expect to find. Show your data. Note that the example given boosts on quite coarse dates, it *tends* to make documents published in a particular *year* score higher.
You might review: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UsingMailingLists Best Erick On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Craig Stadler <cstadle...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Yes I have and I cannot get it to work. Perhaps something is out of version > for my setup? > I tried for 3 hours to get ever example I could find to work. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erick Erickson" > <erickerick...@gmail.com> > To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 5:07 PM > Subject: Re: Date boosting with dismax question > > > Have you seen this? > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ#How_can_I_boost_the_score_of_newer_documents > > Best > Erick > > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Craig Stadler <cstadle...@hotmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Solr Specification Version: 1.4.0 >> Solr Implementation Version: 1.4.0 833479 - grantingersoll - 2009-11-06 >> 12:33:40 >> Lucene Specification Version: 2.9.1 >> Lucene Implementation Version: 2.9.1 832363 - 2009-11-03 04:37:25 >> >> <fieldType name="tdate" class="solr.TrieDateField" omitNorms="true" >> precisionStep="6" positionIncrementGap="0"/> >> >> <field name="created" type="tdate" multiValued="false" indexed="true" >> stored="false" omitNorms="true" required="false" >> omitTermFreqAndPositions="true" /> >> >> I am using 'created' as the name of the date field. >> >> My dates are being populated as such : >> 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z >> >> Search handler (solrconfig) : >> >> <requestHandler name="/dismax" class="solr.SearchHandler"> >> <lst name="defaults"> >> <str name="defType">dismax</str> >> <str name="echoParams">explicit</str> >> <str name="tie">0.1</str> >> <str name="qf">name0^20000 other ^10000</str> >> <str name="pf">name0^20000 other ^10000</str> >> <str name="qs">3</str> >> <str name="ps">3</str> >> <str name="q.alt">*:*</str> >> </lst> >> </requestHandler> >> >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> Query : >> >> /solr/ftf/dismax/?q=libya >> &debugQuery=off >> &hl=true >> &start= >> &rows=10 >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> I am trying to factor in created to the SCORE. (boost) I have tried a >> million ways to do this, no success. I know the dates are populating >> correctly because I can sort by them. Can anyone help me implement date >> boosting with dismax under this scenario??? >> >> -Craig >> > >