No probs mate. I'll take a look in the Sphinx forum.

Shaun


On Jan 13, 12:42 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Shaun
>
> You're not the first person to be looking for exact matches in a field taking 
> priority over other fields, but I'm not sure if this is possible in Sphinx. 
> It's probably worth asking about this on the Sphinx forum instead, because 
> it's definitely beyond my knowledge, and it's not tied to Ruby/Thinking 
> Sphinx.http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/
>
> Sorry I can't be more help at the moment.
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 13/01/2010, at 1:24 PM, Shaun wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi
>
> > I have indexed two fields from my database, a title and author. I have
> > put more field weight on the title field. Title => 20, Author => 18.
> > There are a few other fields in the index for which I have not changed
> > the field weight.
>
> > My problem is that if I search for a word that appears WITHIN both the
> > title and the author field and also appears as an exact match in one
> > of the fields, the document that has the field in both fields displays
> > first.
>
> > In my example, I am searching for a one word title. There is an exact
> > match in the index (i.e there is a record with a title matching that
> > exact word) but documents that do not have an exact match but rather
> > contain the search word in more than one field display first.
>
> > Is there a way to force exact matches to display before documents with
> > multiple field matches?
>
> > If I have a record with a Title of 'Sphinx' and a random Author plus
> > another record with Title of 'Check out the Sphinx Search Engine' and
> > an Author of 'Mr A. B Sphinx', the second record will always display
> > first, whereas, because the first record contains an exact match, I
> > need it to display first. I have played with field weights to no avail
> > and changing rank_mode seems to have little effect.
>
> > I was beginning to wonder whether I need to refresh something if I
> > change the code in my controller (I am setting field_weight and
> > rank_mode on the fly within my controller) as changes to both
> > weighting and rank_mode seem to have little effect. Maybe something is
> > getting cached somewhere?
>
> > Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
>
> > Many thanks
>
> > Shaun
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