I have two requirements for my SOLR implementation:
I need to be able to search on multiple fields at the same time (preferably with field boosting). This is possible using dismax parser.
I also have a specific set of indexed fields (example gender field). I need to be able to apply such specific filters (example: select?q=david&gender:male&status:married). As per my understanding of dismax, this is not possible.
Please suggest if the second requirement can be handled using dismax (or edismax)? For now i am forced to use standard query parser, even though i really liked dismax.