RE: Boosting based on filter query

2013-03-11 Thread Van Tassell, Kristian
Thank you! -Original Message- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:erik.hatc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:50 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Boosting based on filter query Definitely can do this, but how depends on the query parser you're using. With d

Re: Boosting based on filter query

2013-03-11 Thread Erik Hatcher
Definitely can do this, but how depends on the query parser you're using. With dismax/edismax you can use bq=filetype:pdf^10 (where "filetype:pdf" is a valid Lucene query parser expression for your documents). Erik On Mar 11, 2013, at 09:31 , Van Tassell, Kristian wrote: > I want to

Boosting based on filter query

2013-03-11 Thread Van Tassell, Kristian
I want to be able to boost results where the filetype is a pdf: Here is some pseudo code so I don't misrepresent/misinterpret via a URL: search("foobar") foreach result (where filetype==pdf) { boost^10 } Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance!