Yes, discountOverlaps is used in computeNorm which is used at index time. You should see a change after reindexing.
Cheers, Markus -----Original message----- > From:Tom Burton-West <tburt...@umich.edu> > Sent: Thursday 22nd August 2013 23:32 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to set discountOverlaps="true" in Solr 4x > schema.xml > > I should have said that I have set it both to "true" and to "false" and > restarted Solr each time and the rankings and info in the debug query > showed no change. > > Does this have to be set at index time? > > Tom > > > > > >