Cfindex fieldboost does nothing - CF10

[Lee_Bartelme]

Using cfindex to attempt to boost the "Question" field over the "Answer" field of Q&A data. I see no effect from adding anything in the fieldboost field on the index.

<cfindex action="refresh" collection="faq" type="custom" title="question" body="question,answer" fieldboost="question:2" key="faq_id" query="updateQuery" location_i="location_id" />

I get the exact same results if fieldboost is there or not. No change.

[OldNapkin]

After spending countless hours on this, Update 3 finally resolved it. The update 3 docs don't mention it, but fixed it for me. Very frustrating, but glad to have it working.

[Guest]

Interesting....

I'm trying to use docBoost attribute in CFIndex and whenever the attribute is given, none of my documents get added to the collection.  It doesn't throw an error, it just doesn't do anything.  I'll install update 3 and see if it "boosts" my spirits!

Cheers!

[Guest]

I applied update 5, and nothing changed...docBoost doesn't appear to be working.

[Guest]

Turns out you can't point to a query column using docBoost.  Has to be a hardcoded or #variable# supplied value.  I made an enhancement request.

[OldNapkin]

You could add a custom field to your index and stuff a value in there for the records you want to boost. Then when you search order on that field.

[Guest]

I like the idea...could do a compound orderBy DESC, Score DESC so most relevant would bubble to the top of boost groups don't you agree?

[OldNapkin]

Yep. We've got a search that has really complicated ordering rules that would create tons of overhead if we had to run it with every search. Using this method we do the hard crunching once at index time, then on output it's really zippy because we're just sorting on a number.

[Guest]

Do you factor in score or just document weight from your custom boost field?

[OldNapkin]

In that particular search I don't use the score for sorting, but there's no reason you couldn't.