Thanks to those who responded. A more thorough reading of the wiki and I see the need for forceElevation=true in the elevate query.
Cheers, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org>; Chris Warner <chris_war...@yahoo.com> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:23 AM Subject: Re: Can you suggest a method or pattern to consistently promote a document with any query? Chris, I haven't checked if Elevate Component has an easy way to push a specific doc for *all* queries, but have a look http://wiki.apache.org/solr/QueryElevationComponent Otis ---- Performance Monitoring SaaS for Solr - http://sematext.com/spm/solr-performance-monitoring/index.html ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chris Warner <chris_war...@yahoo.com> > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:16 PM > Subject: Can you suggest a method or pattern to consistently promote a > document with any query? > > 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 > > > -- > chris_war...@yahoo.com >