Thanks, Jeevanandam and Otis, I'll take another look at Elevate. My first attempts did not yield success, as I was not able to find a way to elevate a document with a *:* query. Perhaps I'll try a * query to see what happens.
Cheers, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeevanandam Madanagopal <je...@myjeeva.com> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; Chris Warner <chris_war...@yahoo.com> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:21 AM Subject: Re: Can you suggest a method or pattern to consistently promote a document with any query? Chris - Take a look - QueryElevationComponent http://wiki.apache.org/solr/QueryElevationComponent -Jeevanandam On Apr 18, 2012, at 10:46 PM, Chris Warner wrote: > Hi, folks, > > Perhaps I'm overlooking an obvious solution to a common desire... I'd like to > return a specific document with every query, as the first result. As well, > I'd like to have that document be the first result in a *:* query. > > I'm looking into index time boosting using the boost attribute on the > appropriate doc. I haven't tested this yet, and I'm not sure this would do > anything for the *:* queries. > > Thanks for any suggested reading or patterns... > > Best, > Chris > > > --