Have you looked at external fields? http://lucidworks.lucidimagination.com/display/solr/Solr+Field+Types#SolrFieldTypes-WorkingwithExternalFiles
you will need a process to do the counts and note the limitation of updates only after a commit, but i think it would fit your usecase. On 23 February 2012 12:04, rks_lucene <ppro.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Chantal, > > Thanks for your reply, but thats not what I was asking. > > Let me explain. The size of the list in AREFS would give me how many records > are *referred by* an article and NOT how many records *refer to* an article. > > Say if an article id - 51463 has been published in 2002 and refers to 10 > articles dating from 1990-2002. Then the count of AREFS would be 10 which is > static once the journal has been published. > > However if the same article is being *referred to* by 20 articles published > from 2003-2012 then I am talking about this 20 count. This count is dynamic > and as we keep adding records to the index, there are more articles that > will refer to article 51463 it in their AREFS field in the future. > /(Obviously when we are adding article 51463 to the index we have no clue > who will be referring to it in the future, so we can have another field in > it for this, nor can be update 51463 everytime someone refers to it)/ > > So today, if I want to know who all are referring to 51463, by actually > searching for this id in the AREFS field. The query is as simple as > q=AREFS:51463 and it will given the list of articles from 2003 to 2012 and > the result count would be 20. > > So back to the question, say if my search query is q=AT:metal and it gives > me 1700 results. How can I > sort 1700 results by those that have received maximum number of citations > (till date) by others. (i.e., that have maximum number of results if I > individually search their ids in the AREFS field). > > Hope this makes it clear. I feel this is a sort/boost by function query > candidate. But I am not able to figure it out. > > Thanks > Ritesh > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Can-this-type-of-sorting-boosting-be-done-by-solr-tp3769315p3769475.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
