Thanks Erik, I followed this approach.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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!
