The problem with what you provided is it is boosting ALL documents whether the field is empty or not....
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Basically I want documents that have a given field populated > > to have a > > higher score than the documents that dont. So if you > > search for foo I want > > documents that contain foo, but i want the documents that > > have field a > > populated to have a higher score... > > > Hi Donald, > > Since you are using edismax, it is better to use bq (boosting query) for > this. > > bq=reqularprice:[* TO *]^50 > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxQParserPlugin#bq_.28Boost_Query.29 > > defType=edismax&qf=nameSuggest^10 name^10 codeTXT^2 description^1 > brand_search^0 cat_search^10&q=chairs&bq=reqularprice:[* TO *]^50 > >
