Boosting search indexing config

[quo-so]

There's a ton of info about how to boost properties in your search index but for the life of me it seems that when i put in these boosting configs... It doesn't seem to want to index the other properties that aren't specified.  below is my indexing config that you can see where i commented the parts that i added.  My search results seem to be only based on those properties but when I take out my customization more results (just not boosted) come in as usual.  and each time i'm re-indexing the repo using http://www.wemblog.com/2011/12/how-to-rebuild-index-in-cq5-wem.html.  can anyone shed some light or offer a sample config that works for them?  thanks so much

<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE configuration SYSTEM "http://jackrabbit.apache.org/dtd/indexing-configuration-1.2.dtd"> <configuration xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:dam="http://www.day.com/dam/1.0" xmlns:nt="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0"> <!-- Do not index content of subassets --> <index-rule nodeType="nt:resource" condition="ancestor::subassets/@jcr:primaryType='{http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0}unstructured'"> </index-rule> <index-rule nodeType="nt:base"> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">analyticsProvider</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">analyticsSnippet</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">hideInNav</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">offTime</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">onTime</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:allowedTemplates</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:AuditEvent</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:childrenOrder</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:cugEnabled</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:cugPrincipals</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:cugRealm</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:designPath</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:isCancelledForChildren</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:isDeep</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastModified</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastModifiedBy</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastPublished</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastPublishedBy</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastReplicated</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastReplicatedBy</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastReplicationAction</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastReplicationStatus</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastRolledout</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:lastRolledoutBy</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:name</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:parentPath</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:segments</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:siblingOrder</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:template</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:trigger</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">cq:versionComment</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">jcr:createdBy</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">jcr:lastModifiedBy</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">sling:alias</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">sling:resourceType</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">sling:vanityPath</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">rep:versionStorage</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">nt:version</property> <property nodeScopeIndex="false">nt:versionHistory</property> <!-- CUSTOM ADDED --> <property boost="5.0" useInExcerpt="false">cq:tags</property> <property boost="5.0" useInExcerpt="false">jcr:tags</property> <property boost="4.0" useInExcerpt="false">jcr:title</property> <property boost="3.0" useInExcerpt="false">navTitle</property> <property boost="3.0" useInExcerpt="false">pageTitle</property> <property boost="3.0" useInExcerpt="false">homepageTitle</property> <!-- END CUSTOM ADDED --> <property isRegexp="true">.*:.*</property> </index-rule> <!-- Cq Page for jcr:contains(jcr:content, "...") searches --> <aggregate primaryType="cq:PageContent"> <include>*</include> <include>*/*</include> <include>*/*/*</include> <include>*/*/*/*</include> </aggregate> <aggregate primaryType="dam:Asset"> <include>jcr:content</include> <include>jcr:content/metadata</include> <include>jcr:content/metadata/*</include> <include>jcr:content/renditions</include> <include>jcr:content/renditions/original</include> <include>jcr:content/renditions/original/jcr:content</include> <!-- child axis orderby index --> <include>jcr:content/renditions/original/jcr:content/jcr:lastModified</include> </aggregate> <!-- nt:file child axis orderby index --> <aggregate primaryType="nt:file"> <include>jcr:content</include> <include>jcr:content/jcr:lastModified</include> </aggregate> <!-- cq:Page child axis orderby index --> <aggregate primaryType="cq:Page"> <include>jcr:content</include> <include>jcr:content/cq:lastModified</include> </aggregate> </configuration>

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

From your configuration you do not wish to boost the complete node but only certain properties & hence working as designed.   http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/IndexingConfiguration

[quo-so]

thanks sham for replying.  just two questions from your answer.  

1) even though i'm boosting the properties.  it still shouldn't leave out results from non-boosted properties correct?  (which i'm seeing it do)

2) How does a score of a page even work then if it's only boosting properties shouldn't these boostings aggregate to the page?  cause then i can't even see how you can weight pages with these boosted properties.  Would i have to account for every situation?  such as boost page that contains title 4, boost page with tags 4, boost page that contains both title and tags 5, etc