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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com> on 2009/12/09 18:00:13 UTC

Re: how to use boost factor

I don't quite understand what you mean by priority. Are you clear about
the difference between boosting and sorting? If you're sure you want to
boost, have you seen:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler#bq_.28Boost_Query.29

<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler#bq_.28Boost_Query.29>Best
Erick

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Doddamani, Prakash <
prakash.doddamani@corp.aol.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While searching (querying) the solr, how can we achieved following
> scenario.
>
> Search priority should be in the following order:
>
> 1.      Genre
> 2.      nowplaying
> 3.      Stationname
> 4.      Keywords
>
> Say I am searching for "rock"  it should search in "genre" field first
> and then nowplaying then stationname and then keyword fields,   what
> would be the query
>
>
> Thanks  in advance
>
> Prakash
>
>