Phill, You can find a lot of blog posts describes how to sort results by an external field. FWIW, LucidWorks Enterprise has something like relevance feedback framework.
Regards On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Phill Tornroth <famousactr...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm puzzled on whether or not Solr is the right system for solving this > problem I've got. I'm using some Solr indexes for autocompletion, and I > have a desire to rank the results by their value to the requesting user. > Essentially, I'll tally the number of times the user has chosen particular > results, and I have a need to include that value in the process of sorting > and limiting results. > > This doesn't seem like a request that would be un-typical, but I'm > wondering how Solr experts suggest it be done? It seems impractical to hold > my scores elsewhere and ask Solr for unlimited results and then do the > ordering/limiting on my side.. but I don't see an obvious way to do this > within Solr itself, though the JOIN functionality and the Function Query > stuff look like they might be a part of the right solution. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Phill > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev Lucid Certified Apache Lucene/Solr Developer Grid Dynamics <http://www.griddynamics.com> <mkhlud...@griddynamics.com>
