The typical use case, though, is for the featured document to be on top only for certain queries. Like in an intranet where someone queries 401K or retirement or similar, you want to feature a document about benefits that would otherwise rank really low for that query. I have not be able to make sorting strategies work very well.
Our approach has been to create a separate index of featured items that are tagged by the desired query. And then the results are placed in a different hit list as featured results (sort of like sponsored results). On 10/24/07, mark angelillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Charlie, > > That's interesting. I did try something like this. Did you try your > query with a sorting parameter? > > What I've read suggests that all the results are returned based on > the query specified, but then resorted as specified. Boosting (which > modifies the document's score) should not change the order unless the > results are sorted by score. > > Mark > > On Oct 24, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Charlie Jackson wrote: > > > Do you know which document you want at the top? If so, I believe you > > could just add an "OR" clause to your query to boost that document > > very > > high, such as > > > > ?q=foo OR id:bar^1000 > > > > Tried this on my installation and it did, indeed push the document > > specified to the top. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matthew Runo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:17 AM > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Forced Top Document > > > > I'd love to know this, as I just got a development request for this > > very feature. I'd rather not spend time on it if it already exists. > > > > +--------------------------------------------------------+ > > | Matthew Runo > > | Zappos Development > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > | 702-943-7833 > > +--------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:12 PM, mark angelillo wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Is there a way to get a specific document to appear on top of > >> search results even if a sorting parameter would push it further > >> down? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Mark > >> > >> mark angelillo > >> snooth inc. > >> o: 646.723.4328 > >> c: 484.437.9915 > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> snooth -- 1.8 million ratings and counting... > >> > >> > > > > mark angelillo > snooth inc. > o: 646.723.4328 > c: 484.437.9915 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > snooth -- 1.8 million ratings and counting... > > >
