That's great information. Thanks!
-Alex
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On 3/2/2010 3:11 PM, Ahmet Arslan wrote:
I'm new to Solr and just getting it set up
and testing it out. I'd like to know if there's a way
to give a different weight to different data fields.
For an example, I'm going to be storing song
information. I have the fields: Artist, Title,
Description, and Tags. I'd like occurrences of the
search term in Artist and Title to count more than the ones
found in Description and Tags. For instance, a search
for Bruce Springsteen against all the fields should return
the ones where artist=Bruce Springsteen higher than ones
that just have that within the description. Is this
possible either in the indexing or with a query option?
You can do it in either query time or index time. In query time you can assign
different boost values with carat operator.
e.g. Artist:(Bruce Springsteen)^10 Title:(Bruce Springsteen)^5
Also dismax[1] request handler might useful to you.
[1]http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler
At index time you can give different boost values to different fields. [2]
e.g.<field name="Artist" boost="10.0">
[2]http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Optional_attributes_for_.22field.22
