[DarrenPotter]

5 years, 6 months ago #14408

Hi,

PDFs are dominating my search results a little too much. Can I use type to boost pages or give media files less weighting? If so, how do I do that?

Darren

[wpsolr]

5 years, 6 months ago #14409

Of course, yes.

Use boost values on field “type” like:
attachment^.5
page^1

(tested on my local env)

[DarrenPotter]

5 years, 6 months ago #14412

Thanks for the reply. I tried it exactly as you showed it but the search broke and I got the following message:

Solr HTTP error: OK (400) {“error”:{“metadata”:[“error-class”,”org.apache.solr.common.SolrException”,”root-error-class”,”org.apache.solr.parser.TokenMgrError”],”msg”:”org.apache.solr.search.SyntaxError: Cannot parse ‘type:\”attachment\”^.5 type:\”page\”^1’: Lexical error at line 1, column 19. Encountered: \”.\” (46), after : \”\””,”code”:400}}

[wpsolr]

5 years, 6 months ago #14413

Which Solr version is it?

Can you try:
attachment^1
page^2

[DarrenPotter]

5 years, 6 months ago #14414

It’s WPSOLR PRO 19.5.

I tried those values. The search didn’t break this time but I’m not seeing any difference, even when I tried some pretty extreme boosts e.g.

attachment^1
page^3000

[wpsolr]

5 years, 6 months ago #14415

Your Apache Solr version?

[wpsolr]

5 years, 6 months ago #14416

Mea culpa, I made my previous tests with Elasticsearch.

So, now with Solr, I confirm that partial decimals notation like “.5” crashes. One need to use “0.5”

So, the previous example should have been (for Solr):

attachment^0.5
page^1

But then, on my local env, the boosts work as expected, and PDFs are displayed after pages in results.

[wpsolr]

5 years, 6 months ago #14418

WPSOLR PRO 19.5 is very old. Please update it, your issue could have been fixed in later versions.

[DarrenPotter]

5 years, 6 months ago #14420

Thanks for the quick replies; I’ve managed to improve the results. Will look into upgrading!