The queries I am trying to do are q=title:Unicamp and
q=title:Unicamp&bf=question_count^5.0 The boosting factor (5.0) is just to verify if it was really used. Thanks Alex On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Denis Kuzmenok <forward...@ukr.net> wrote: > Show your full request to solr (all params) > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use bf parameter in solr queries but I'm having some > problems. > > > The context is: I have some topics and a integer weight of popularity > > (number of users that follow the topic). I'd like to boost the documents > > according to this weight field, and it changes (users may start following > or > > unfollowing that topic). I through the best way to do that is adding a bf > > parameter to the query. > > > First of all I was trying to include it in a query processed by a default > > SearchHandler. I debugged the results and the scores didn't change. So I > > tried to change the defType of the SearchHandler to dismax (I didn't add > any > > other field in solrconfig), and queries didn't work anymore. > > > What is the best way to achieve what I want? Do I really need to use a > > dismax SearchHander (I read about it, and I don't want to search in > multple > > fields - I want to search in one field and boost in another one)? > > > Thanks in advance > > > Alex Grilo > > >
