Try: recip(rord(creationDate),1,1000,1000) See: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery
You can play with the magic numbers to influence how this scales your docs. Best, Erick On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jay Parashar <bparas...@slb.com> wrote: > This is correct: " I index it and feed it the timestamp at index time". > You can sort desc on that field (can be a TrieDateField) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven White [mailto:swhite4...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9:01 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: [Ext] Influence ranking based on document committed date > > Hi everyone > > Let's say I search for the word "Olympic" and I get a hit on 10 documents > that have similar content (let us assume the content is at least 80% > identical) how can I have Solr rank them so that the ones with most recently > updated doc gets ranked higher? Is this something I have to do at index time > or search time? > > Is the trick to have a field that holds the committed timestamp and boost on > that field during search? If so, is this field something I can configure in > Solr's schema.xml or must I index it and feed it the timestamp at index time? > If I'm on the right track, does this mean I have to always append this field > base boost to each query a user issues? > > If there is a wiki or article written on this topic, that would be a good > start. > > In case it matters, I'm using Solr 5.2 and my searches are utilizing edismax. > > Thanks in advanced! > > Steve
