If you get the PACKT Solr 1.4 book, there are extensive examples of this very thing.....
It's *well* worth the time it'll save you... Erick On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > >
