> Are there any best practices or > preferred ways to accomplish what I am > trying?
People usually prefer multiplicative boosting. But in your case you want additive boosting. Dismax's bf is additive. There is also _val_ hook. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax > Do the params for defType, qf and bf belong in a solr > request handler? They can be defined in defaults section in request handler as well as via query parameters. q=test&pf=...&qf=... > Is it possible to have the weights as variables so they can > be tweaked till > we find the optimum balance in showing our results? Yes you can try different settings on the fly using query parameters.
