How to give a property a higher ranking/relevance in Search resul

How to give a property a higher ranking/relevance in Search results

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Hi,

I'm using EPiServer Find to index/search a custom collection of Organisations. An Organisation is made up of Organisation Name, Address, Phone etc..

When a person does a search I would like to give the Organisation Name property a higher search ranking in the results e.g. If I were to search for "Abbey", I would like to see the organisations such as "Abbey Insurance Co" appear higher in the search rankings than any organisations with an address of "Abbey Road", "Abbey Street" for example.

I have tried using the "BoostMatching" method (http://find.episerver.com/Documentation/dotnet-api-boosting-with-filters) to give the Organisation matches a greater relevance, but this appears to only work if I supply an exact match for the field.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

#73466

Jul 23, 2013 12:43

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Got the answer to this, need to supply the relative importance to the property that need to appear higher in the rankings in my scenario the Organisation Name...

var result = SearchClient.Instance.Search<Organisation>(Language.English)

.For(query)

.InField(x => x.OrganisationName, 5)

.InFields(x => x.Address, x => x.Phone)

.GetResult();

#73506

Jul 25, 2013 11:06