I think perhaps the reason it won't work is that functions cannot contain spaces, so you should use variable substitutions instead
&boost=product(10,query($qq,0))&qq={!dismax qf="title" v="treatment"} But why do you use dismax for the query() function when a simple qq=title:treatment would do? -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com 23. mars 2013 kl. 01:26 skrev "Miller, Will Jr" <will.mil...@wolterskluwer.com>: > This is the echo params... It looks like it ignores the qf in the > FunctionQuery and instead takes the qf of the main query. > > <lst name="params"> > <str name="spellcheck">true</str> > <str name="facet">true</str> > <str name="sort">score desc</str> > <str name="facet.limit">11</str> > <str name="q.alt">*:*</str> > <str name="showFindSimilarLinks">true</str> > <str name="f.body.hl.alternateField">body</str> > <str name="hl">true</str> > <str name="stopwords.enabled">true</str> > <str name="feedback">false</str> > <str name="echoParams">all</str> > <str name="fl">title,score</str> > <str name="f.body.hl.maxAlternateFieldLength">250</str> > <arr name="role"> > <str>DEFAULT</str> > <str>DEFAULT</str> > </arr> > <arr name="facet.field"> > <str>author_display</str> > <str>data_source_name</str> > <str>keywords_display</str> > <str>mimeType</str> > </arr> > <str > name="synonyms.fields">abstract,body,comments,country,description,diseaseconcept,genesymbol,grant,institution,investigator,investigatoraffiliation,keywordheading,nlmjournalname,origtitle,otherabstract,personname,primaryauthor,protocolconcept,spaceflight,substance,text_all,title</str> > <str name="auto-complete">true</str> > <str name="likeDoc.fl">author,title</str> > <str name="facet.mincount">1</str> > <str name="feedback.emphasis">relevancy</str> > <str name="qf">abstract author origtitle substance text_all > title^5.0</str> > <str > name="hl.fl">abstract,author,authorfullname,authorlast,body,comments,country,diseaseconcept,genesymbol,grant,institution,investigator,investigatoraffiliation,keywordheading,nlmjournalname,origtitle,otherabstract,personname,primaryauthor,protocolconcept,substance,title</str> > <str name="spellcheck.collate">true</str> > <str name="spellcheck.onlyMorePopular">true</str> > <str name="defType">lucid</str> > <str name="pf">abstract substance author title^5.0 text_all > origtitle</str> > <str > name="stopwords.fields">abstract,body,comments,country,description,diseaseconcept,genesymbol,grant,institution,investigator,investigatoraffiliation,keywordheading,keywords,nlmjournalname,origtitle,otherabstract,personname,primaryauthor,protocolconcept,spaceflight,substance,title</str> > <str name="boost">product(10,query({!dismax qf="title" > v="treatment"},0))</str> > <str name="synonyms.enabled">true</str> > <str name="debugQuery">true</str> > <str name="indent">true</str> > <str name="q">cancer</str> > <str name="wt">xml</str> > </lst> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Høydahl [mailto:jan....@cominvent.com] > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 8:07 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Boost query parameter with Lucid parser and using query > FunctionQuery > > Why would you use dismax for the query() when you want to match a simple term > to one field? > > If you share &echoParams=all the answer may lie somewhere therein? > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com > > 23. mars 2013 kl. 00:07 skrev "Miller, Will Jr" > <will.mil...@wolterskluwer.com>: > >> I have been playing around with the bq/bf/boost query parameters available >> in dismax/edismax. I am using the Lucid parser as my default parser for the >> query. The lucid parser is an extension of the DisMax parser and should >> contain everything that is available in that parser. My goal is boost items >> that have the word treatment in the title field. I started with the bq >> parameter and this works but it is an additive boost. I would prefer a >> multiplicative boost so I started to look at using boost which is part of >> edismax. >> >> This is my full query: >> /lucid?q=cancer&sort=score+desc&fl=title,score&wt=xml&indent=true&debu >> gQuery=true&boost=product(10,query({!dismax qf="title" v="treatment"},0)) >> What I see in the debug data: >> >> <str name="parsedquery">BoostedQuery(boost((abstract:blood | >> author:blood | origtitle:blood | substance:blood | text_all:blood | >> title:blood^5.0)~0.01,product(const(10),query(+(title:treatment) >> (abstract:treatment | author:treatment | substance:treatment | >> title:treatment^5.0 | text_all:treatment | >> origtitle:treatment),def=0.0))))</str> >> <str name="parsedquery_toString">boost((abstract:blood | author:blood >> | origtitle:blood | substance:blood | text_all:blood | >> title:blood^5.0)~0.01,product(const(10),query(+(title:treatment) >> (abstract:treatment | author:treatment | substance:treatment | >> title:treatment^5.0 | text_all:treatment | >> origtitle:treatment),def=0.0)))</str> >> >> In the boost query I am specifying the field as title but it is expanding to >> look in all of the fields. >> >> How do I restrict the boost query to just look in the title field? >> >> Thanks, >> Will >