I've got the book (which is great, btw). I used Luke to get explanations of the results, but I don't see any boosts in the explanations.
Martin On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:24 -0700, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > I'd look a the output of Explain to see how ranking score is calculated > > Look at this: http://lucenebook.com/search?query=explain (hit #1 is > from a free chapter) > > Otis > > > --- Martin May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have a bunch of documents in my index, some of which have values > > for a > > certain field while others don't. I'd like the ones that do have a > > value > > to always show up before the ones who don't when sorting by > > relevance. > > > > I tried to accomplish this by check whether there are values for the > > field, and if so boosting the document by 5000. However, it doesn't > > seem > > to have the desired effect. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Martin > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]