My current attempt at working through this is to:

• Run the search as normal
• Search through each result, and depending on its nodetypeaslias update the score given to it.
• Re-order the results by score, which takes into effect the changes made for each nodetypealias.

This works well and gives me the desired results, but I'm pretty sure this could be improved from a performance perspective. I'll keep working on it, but would be interested to hear if anyone else had done something similar!

Hi Ed,

We did something similar but at indexing time by adding a event handler for the DocumentWriting event of your examine indexer.

Something like this

 public class BootManager : ApplicationEventHandler
    {

        protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
        {            
            var contentIndexer = (UmbracoContentIndexer)ExamineManager.Instance.IndexProviderCollection["IndexerName"];                        
            libraIndexer.DocumentWriting += this.DocumentWriting;

            ContentService.Saving += ContentServiceOnSaving;
            //MediaService.Saved += MediaServiceSaved;

            base.ApplicationStarted(umbracoApplication, applicationContext);
        }

        public void DocumentWriting(object sender, DocumentWritingEventArgs e)
        {
            // boost doctype on indexing
            if (e.Fields["nodeTypeAlias"] == "YourDocTypeAlias")
            {
                e.Document.SetBoost(2);
            }
        }

    }

Dave

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