Ways to weight SOLR search results without development

["Bryant, Eric" <eb...@alvarezandmarsal.com>]

Hi,

Is there a way to boost certain Drupal nodes to show up higher in SOLR search without having to do development of introduce conditional scripts? For example, if a person does a search for "valuation services", our SOLR instance right now returns articles sorted by frequency of keyword and density. But what if we want a node to show up higher but that doesn't have as high frequency or density for that keyword? We tried using the Keyword metadata field but that didn't seem to help. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eric Bryant
Web & Digital Analytics Manager
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Re: Ways to weight SOLR search results without development

[Charlie Hull <ch...@flax.co.uk>]

On 24/10/2017 14:40, Bryant, Eric wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to boost certain Drupal nodes to show up higher in SOLR search without having to do development of introduce conditional scripts? For example, if a person does a search for "valuation services", our SOLR instance right now returns articles sorted by frequency of keyword and density. But what if we want a node to show up higher but that doesn't have as high frequency or density for that keyword? We tried using the Keyword metadata field but that didn't seem to help. Any ideas?

Hi Eric,

How/if you can do this is going to depend on which Drupal plugins you're 
using to talk to Solr, and how they've been configured. We've seen 
several Drupal/Solr installations where boosting has been applied in an 
inconsistent way - our approach has usually been to turn it all off and 
start again.

Cheers

Charlie


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric Bryant
> Web & Digital Analytics Manager
> Alvarez & Marsal
> 600 Madison Avenue, 5th Floor
> New York, NY 10022
> Direct: +1 212 328 8504
> Mobile: +1 908 443 1665
> www.alvarezandmarsal.com<http://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/>
> 
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