On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Andy <angelf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I meant can I do it with dismax without modifying every single query? I'm > accessing Solr through haystack and all queries are generated by haystack. > I'd much rather not have to go under haystack to modify the generated > queries. Hence I'm trying to find a way to boost every query by default.
If you can get haystack to pass through the user query as something like qq, then yes - just use something like the last link I showed at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ#How_can_I_boost_the_score_of_newer_documents and set defaults for everything except qq. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com > --- On Wed, 1/6/10, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: > > From: Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> > Subject: Re: DisMaxRequestHandler bf configuration > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 7:48 PM > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Andy <angelf...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> So if I want to configure Solr to turn every query q=foo into q={!boost >> b=log(popularity)}foo, dismax wouldn't work but edismax would? > > You can do it with dismax.... it's just that the syntax is slightly > more convoluted. > Check out the section on boosting newer documents: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ#How_can_I_boost_the_score_of_newer_documents > > > > >
