How to score high of document containing "Burj Khalifa" in title and then in summary field in SOLR

Question

Hi, I want to sort document by relevancy i.e. First all docs having "Burj Khalifa" in title and then in summary field? and sort by publishdate as well. means latest documents must have high score.

criteria is like sort by score with publishdate

http://localhost:8080/solr/select?sort=score+desc,publishdate+desc&q=Burj Khalifa

Answer 1

I think you don't want sorting in this case, as it defines a strict ordering on the result set. Instead, I'd use DisMax with a FunctionQuery (see here to boost newer documents) and the qf parameter to boost the title field.

You'll have to play a bit with the boost values to get optimal results.