> I'm new to Solr and just getting it set up > and testing it out. I'd like to know if there's a way > to give a different weight to different data fields. > > For an example, I'm going to be storing song > information. I have the fields: Artist, Title, > Description, and Tags. I'd like occurrences of the > search term in Artist and Title to count more than the ones > found in Description and Tags. For instance, a search > for Bruce Springsteen against all the fields should return > the ones where artist=Bruce Springsteen higher than ones > that just have that within the description. Is this > possible either in the indexing or with a query option?
You can do it in either query time or index time. In query time you can assign different boost values with carat operator. e.g. Artist:(Bruce Springsteen)^10 Title:(Bruce Springsteen)^5 Also dismax[1] request handler might useful to you. [1]http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler At index time you can give different boost values to different fields. [2] e.g. <field name="Artist" boost="10.0"> [2]http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Optional_attributes_for_.22field.22
