Thanks for the suggestions. I'm messing around with changing the values
in config.h right now. I want to come up with a solution that isn't
dependent on someone entering meta tags, because most people creating
web pages on my site don't.

Bill Moseley wrote:
> 
> At 10:17 AM 02/08/02 -0800, Gerald Klaas wrote:
> >To Chris, the way I handle this is to create a Meta tag name="topicno"
> >and every page has up to 3 assigned topic numbers.  The CGI sorts
> >the swish results by topicno.  This wouldn't work well for large
> >data sets, as the CGI has to fetch all of the records in order to sort
> >them.  I have the number limited to 1300 by the existance of a second
> >META tag on "important" pages.  In my CGI, if this search for
> >"important"
> >pages returns zero results, it then passes the query to the general
> >query (doesn't have to have a topicno META tag)
> 
> That's a good idea.  The "rank" number would be messed up, but you do add a
> meta tag to every document with a number, where most have a number of, say
> 5 and then for docs you want to always "rank" higher set them to a lower
> number.
> 
> Here's the details:
> 
>       <meta name="category" content="5">
> 
> in config:
> 
>     PropertyNamesNumeric category
> 
> Then when you run the query:
> 
>       -w $query -s category swishrank desc -b $begin -m $page_size
> 
> The rank in the display will not make much sense, but you will get what you
> want.
> 
> You can also limit results to a range of categories if you really want to:
> 
>      -L category 4 6
> 
> Although for a limited number of categories you would be better off just
> saying:
> 
>      MetaNames category
> 
>      -w category=( 4 or 5 or 6 )
> 
> --
> Bill Moseley
> mailto:moseley@hank.org

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