I did find a solution, but the output is horrible. Why does explain look so badly?
<lst name="explain"><str name="2H7DF"> 6.351252 = (MATCH) boost(*:*,query(specialties_ids: #1;#0;#0;#0;#0;#0;#0;#0;#0; ,def=0.0)), product of: 1.0 = (MATCH) MatchAllDocsQuery, product of: 1.0 = queryNorm 6.351252 = query(specialties_ids: #1;#0;#0;#0;#0;#0;#0;#0;#0; ,def=0.0)=6.351252 </str> defType=edismax&boost=query($param)¶m=multi_field:87 -- We like the boost parameter in SOLR 3.5 with eDismax. The question we have is what we would like to replace bq with boost, but we get the "multi-valued field issue" when we try to do this. Bill Bell Sent from mobile