I can set the boost of a field or doc at index time using the boost attr in the update message, e.g. <field name="type" boost="2.0">pet</field>
But that won't work for multivalued fields according to the RelevancyFAQ <field name="type" boost="2.0">pet</field> <field name="type" boost="1.0">animal</field> ( I assume it applies the last boost parsed to all terms? ) Now, say I'd like to do index-time boosting of a multivalued field with each value having a unique boost. I could simply index the field multiple times: <field name="type">pet</field> <field name="type">pet</field> <field name="type">animal</field> But is there a more exact way?