Boosting Facets

Boosted Facets allow you to increase or decrease the relative importance of certain facets in your search results, either globally, or only for specific queries.

You can tune relevance at different levels. For example, you can boost a:

  • facet group, such as People

  • facet, such as People > Author

  • facet value, such as People > Author > J.Smith

See Also
Testing Modifications
Boosting Hits
  1. On the Business Console Home page, click Configure in the Boosted Facets box.
  2. On the Boosted Facets panel, select the type of tuning you want to do:
    • To tune relevance globally, click the Default Tuning group and then go to Step 5.
    • To tune relevance for specific queries, click Add.
  3. In the Add Boosted Facets Expression dialog box:
    1. For Expression, type the query for which you want to tune relevance.
    2. Select a Matching Mode. A partial match applies to queries of three words or more, where at least two words are matched.
    3. For Group, type a name for the relevance setup.
  4. Click Accept.
  5. Under Tuning for: Your Group, click the facet group, facet, or facet value you want to tune.
    • Click the icon.
    • This moves the item to top of the list, and displays a slider for it.

  6. Use the slider to adjust the relevance of the item.
    • -: decreases the score for the item. By default, the score is halved.
    • +: increases the score for item. By default, the score is doubled.
    • Top: places this category facet just below boosted hits.

    Note: To adjust the level of increase or decrease for the score, go to Misc > Configuration > Boosted Facets.

  7. Repeat Step 5 and Step 6 as much as needed.
  8. Test your modifications.