I've recently started working on the Drupal integration module for
SOLR, and we are looking for suggestions for how to address this
question:  how do we boost the importance of a subset of terms within
a field.

For example, we are using the standard request handler for queries,
and the default field for keyword searches is a concatentation of the
title, body, taxonomy terms, etc.

One "hackish" way I can imagine is that terms we want to boost (for
example the title, or text inside h2 tags) could be concatenated on
multiple times.  Would this be effective and reasonable?

It seems like the alternative is to try to switch to using the dismax
handler, storing the terms that we desire to have different boosts
into different fields, all of which are in the list of query fields?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

-Peter

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Peter M. Wolanin, Ph.D.
Momentum Specialist,  Acquia. Inc.
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