Boosting will need to be done off an indexed field. But maybe rather than indexing the url value, maybe index another new hasImage field as a boolean true. No need to index the false values even.
Erik > On Dec 8, 2014, at 02:45, S.L <simpleliving...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a situation where I need to boost the score of a query if a field > (imageURL) in the given document is non empty , I am using edismax so I > know that using bq parameter would solve the problem. However the field > imageURL that I am trying to boost on is not indexed , meaning (stored = > true and indexed = false), can I use the bq parameter for a non indexed > field ? or should I be looking at re-indexing after changing the schema to > make this an indexed field ? > > Also , my use case is such that I want the documents that have an imageURL > to be boosted so that they appear before those documents that do not have > the imageURL when sorted by score in a descending order, and this field in > question i.e. imageURL is sometimes present and sometimes not, that is why > I am looking at boosting the score of those documents that have the > imageURL present. > > Thanks and any help and suggestionis much appreciated!
