What you indicated here is for a different purpose, is it not? I already do something similar with my 'q'. For example a sample query logged in 'catalina.out' looks like
webapp=/search path=/select params={rows=15&start=0&q=(+(content:umts)+OR+(title:umts)^2+OR+(urltext:umts)^2)} when the search term is "umts". I am looking for this term "umts" in the fields - (a) content, (b) title (boosted by a factor of 2) and (c) urltext (boosted by a factor of 2). So the presense of the term "umts" in title or url is weighed more than its presense in the regular content. So far so good. Now, I have other fields as well, like document type, file type etc... that serve as facets to telescope down. Among the above set of search results, I want to boost a specific document type 'white_papers' & a specific file type "pdf". By boosting I mean that these white_paper & pdf documents should float to the top of the heap in the search results, if such documents are at all present in the search results. So would I simply add the following to the above "q"? q=(+(content:umts)+OR+(title:umts)^2+OR+(urltext:umts)^2)+AND+(doctype:white_papers)^2+AND+(filetype:pdf)^2 But wouldn't the above give 0 results if there are no white_papers & pdfs (because of the AND)? If I use OR, then the meaning of the query is lost altogether. What we need is for the white_papers & pdfs to be boosted, but if and only if such doucments are valid results to the search term in question. How would I write my above 'q' to accomplish that? Thanks - ashok Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:03 AM, ashokc <ash...@qualcomm.com> wrote: > >> >> I have a query that yields results binned in several facets. How can I >> boost >> the results that fall in certain facets over the rest of them that do not >> belong to those facets? I use the standard query format. Thank you > > > I'm not sure what you mean by boosting by facet. Do you mean that you want > to boost documents which match a term query? > > If yes, you can use your_field_name:value^2.0 in the q parameter. > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Boosting-by-facets-with-standard-query-tp23084860p23091586.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.