need help with getting exact matches to score higher

[geeky2]

Hello all,


i am trying to tune our core for exact matches on a single field (itemNo)
and having issues getting it to work.  

in addition - i need help understanding the output from debugQuery=on where
it presents the scoring.

my goal is to get exact matches to arrive at the top of the results. 
however - what i am seeing is non-exact matches arrive at the top of the
results with MUCH higher scores.



// from schema.xml - i am copying itemNo in to the string field for use in
boosting

  <field name="itemNoExactMatchStr"      type="string" indexed="true"
stored="false"/>
  <copyField source="itemNo" dest="itemNoExactMatchStr"/>

// from solrconfig.xml - i have the boost set for my special exact match
field and the sorting on score desc.

  <requestHandler name="itemNoProductTypeBrandSearch"
class="solr.SearchHandler" default="false">
    <lst name="defaults">
      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
      <str name="echoParams">all</str>
      <int name="rows">10</int>
      *<str name="qf">itemNoExactMatchStr^30 itemNo^.9 divProductTypeDesc^.8
brand^.5</str>*
      <str name="q.alt">*:*</str>
     * <str name="sort">score desc</str>*
      <str name="facet">true</str>
      <str name="facet.field">itemDescFacet</str>
      <str name="facet.field">brandFacet</str>
      <str name="facet.field">divProductTypeIdFacet</str>
    </lst>
    <lst name="appends">
    </lst>
    <lst name="invariants">
    </lst>
  </requestHandler>



// analysis output from debugQuery=on

here you can see that the top socre for itemNo:9030 is a part that does not
start with 9030.

the entries below (there are 4) all have exact matches - but they rank below
this part - ???



<str name=&quot;0904000,1354  ,&lt;b>2TTZ9030C1000A*                     ">
0.585678 = (MATCH) max of:
  0.585678 = (MATCH) weight(itemNo:9030^0.9 in 582979), product of:
    0.021552926 = queryWeight(itemNo:9030^0.9), product of:
      0.9 = boost
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      0.0023316324 = queryNorm
    27.173943 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(itemNo:9030 in 582979), product of:
      2.6457512 = tf(termFreq(itemNo:9030)=7)
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      1.0 = fieldNorm(field=itemNo, doc=582979)
</str>



<str name=&quot;1220000,1232  ,&lt;b>9030*                               ">
0.22136548 = (MATCH) max of:
  0.22136548 = (MATCH) weight(itemNo:9030^0.9 in 499864), product of:
    0.021552926 = queryWeight(itemNo:9030^0.9), product of:
      0.9 = boost
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      0.0023316324 = queryNorm
    10.270785 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(itemNo:9030 in 499864), product of:
      1.0 = tf(termFreq(itemNo:9030)=1)
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      1.0 = fieldNorm(field=itemNo, doc=499864)
</str>

<str name=&quot;0537220,1882  ,&lt;b>9030                               *">
0.22136548 = (MATCH) max of:
  0.22136548 = (MATCH) weight(itemNo:9030^0.9 in 538826), product of:
    0.021552926 = queryWeight(itemNo:9030^0.9), product of:
      0.9 = boost
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      0.0023316324 = queryNorm
    10.270785 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(itemNo:9030 in 538826), product of:
      1.0 = tf(termFreq(itemNo:9030)=1)
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      1.0 = fieldNorm(field=itemNo, doc=538826)
</str>

<str name=&quot;0537220,2123  ,&lt;b>9030                               *">
0.22136548 = (MATCH) max of:
  0.22136548 = (MATCH) weight(itemNo:9030^0.9 in 544313), product of:
    0.021552926 = queryWeight(itemNo:9030^0.9), product of:
      0.9 = boost
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      0.0023316324 = queryNorm
    10.270785 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(itemNo:9030 in 544313), product of:
      1.0 = tf(termFreq(itemNo:9030)=1)
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      1.0 = fieldNorm(field=itemNo, doc=544313)
</str>

<str name=&quot;0537220,2087  ,&lt;b>9030                               *">
0.22136548 = (MATCH) max of:
  0.22136548 = (MATCH) weight(itemNo:9030^0.9 in 544657), product of:
    0.021552926 = queryWeight(itemNo:9030^0.9), product of:
      0.9 = boost
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      0.0023316324 = queryNorm
    10.270785 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(itemNo:9030 in 544657), product of:
      1.0 = tf(termFreq(itemNo:9030)=1)
      10.270785 = idf(docFreq=55, maxDocs=594893)
      1.0 = fieldNorm(field=itemNo, doc=544657)
</str>







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