Thanks Erik. They don't need to absolutely always be the bottom-most -- just not near the top. But that sounds like an easy way to do it, especially since it is a lot easier to reindex now than it used to be.
I would like to know why my query had no effect, though. There's obviously something I don't get about queries. On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul (*bows* to the NINES!) - > > If you literally want Citations always at the bottom regardless of other > relevancy, then perhaps consider indexing boolean top_sort as true for > everything Citations and false otherwise, then use &sort=top_sort asc,score > desc (or do you need to desc top_sort? true then false or false then true?) > > Then you can have Citations literally at the bottom (and within that sorted > in score order) and likewise with non-Citations at the top and sorted score > order within that. Other tricks still risk having Citations mixed in should > relevancy score be high enough. > > The morale of this story is: if you want to hard sort by something, then make > a sort field that does it how you like rather than trying to get relevancy > scoring to do it for you. > > Erik > > > On Oct 28, 2011, at 17:17 , Paul wrote: > >> (I am using solr 3.4 and edismax.) >> >> In my index, I have a multivalued field named "genre". One of the >> values this field can have is "Citation". I would like documents that >> have a genre field of Citation to always be at the bottom of the >> search results. >> >> I've been experimenting, but I can't seem to figure out the syntax of >> the search I need. Here is the search that seems most logical to me >> (newlines added here for readability): >> >> q=%2bcontent%3Anotes+genre%3ACitation^0.01 >> &start=0 >> &rows=3 >> &fl=genre+title >> &version=2.2 >> &defType=edismax >> >> I get the same results whether I include "genre%3ACitation^0.01" or not. >> >> Just to see if my names were correct, I put a minus sign before >> "genre" and it did, in fact, stop returning all the documents >> containing Citation. >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> Here are the results from the above query: >> >> <response> >> <lst name="responseHeader"> >> <int name="status">0</int> >> <int name="QTime">1</int> >> <lst name="params"> >> <str name="fl">genre title </str> >> <str name="start">0</str> >> <str name="q">+content:notes genre:Citation^0.01</str> >> <str name="rows">3</str> >> <str name="version">2.2</str> >> <str name="defType">edismax</str> >> </lst> >> </lst> >> <result name="response" numFound="1276" start="0"> >> <doc> >> <arr name="genre"><str>Citation</str><str>Fiction</str></arr> >> <str name="title">Notes on novelists With some other notes</str> >> </doc> >> <doc> >> <arr name="genre"><str>Citation</str></arr> >> <str name="title">Novel notes</str> >> </doc> >> <doc> >> <arr name="genre"><str>Citation</str></arr> >> <str name="title">Knock about notes</str> >> </doc> >> </result> >> </response> > >
