: What is seems that is happening is that excludeIds or elevateIds ignores : what's in elevate.xml. I would have expected (hoped) that it would layer on : top of that, which makes a bit more sense I think.
That's not how it's implemented -- i believe Joel implemented this way intentional because otherwise if the elevate.xml said "elevate A,B and exclude X,Y" there would be no simple way to say "instead of what's in elevate.xml, i want to elevate X,Y and i don't wnat to exclude *anything*" I made sure this was explicitly documented in the ref guide... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/The+Query+Elevation+Component#TheQueryElevationComponent-TheelevateIdsandexcludeIdsParameters "If either one of these parameters is specified at request time, the the entire elevation configuration for the query is ignored." -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
