External click tracking

[jon_elwood]

Is there a way of configuring Funnelback to look at a particular metadata field in content and using that to rank/weight the results? I had a look at the query processor options and can see that we can weight metadata fields and also use click tracking data (Funnelback’s data) but I can’t see a way of using a numerical value within the metadata to achieve the same effect.

The scenario is - if we have content weight at authoring time or a weighting that is adjusted based on users viewing but also liking/finding useful/referring to others etc.

[gordongrace]

Hi @jon_elwood -

The Query Independent Evidence mechanism might be the best way to achieve this functionality. You may need to construct a workflow that:

1. Lists out the URLs and normalised numeric values containing the desired weight (either from authored metadata or web analytics)
2. Saves this file to $SEARCH_HOME/conf/COLLECTION/qie.cfg
3. Applies the new QIE to the collection

You’ll then need to enable the cool.4 ranking option applied as a query processor option.

See also:

• Query Independent Evidence - Funnelback Documentation - Version 15.10.0
• Redirect Notice
• Redirect Notice
• Post Index Command (collection.cfg) - Funnelback Documentation - Version 15.10.0

[jon_elwood]

Thanks Gordon - I’ll take a look at this.

[plevan]

Hi Jon,

I gave a bit more of a detailed response to this on your other post.

I’d just like to add one thing - for Gordon’s suggestion of Redirect Notice you need to look at the alternate method because you need to inject the values that you have in your metadata (and that won’t work with the padre-sw -res=qiecfg mode.