: The following is the working query with more weight to title. I am using : default parser. But the published_date of the results of this query is not : in order. I want date is in order.
your request seems to contradict itself -- you say the results are not in order because you want "date is in order" but you also say you want to boost on the title field. if you want the dates to be perfectly in order, then you can't let the score (based on the title field) have any effect. Having said that - i'm guessing what you ment to say is that you want the date to *contribute* to the score/order, in which case this is discussed in the wiki... https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ#How_can_I_boost_the_score_of_newer_documents -Hoss
