# Struggling with understand how to add boost if a field is true
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/struggling-with-understand-how-to-add-boost-if-a-field-is-true/7101
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 22, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/struggling-with-understand-how-to-add-boost-if-a-field-is-true/7101 "2012-03-22T20:55:19Z")
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Reynolds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Scott_Reynolds)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/struggling-with-understand-how-to-add-boost-if-a-field-is-true/7101/1 "2012-03-22T20:55:19Z")
I have a set of documents that have a field user\_verified that is either
true or false. When executing a disjunction max query I want documents
where the user\_verified is true to be given a boost.
I thought the answer was constant\_score, but I have really failed to figure
out how to make this work. I am missing something fundmental. Here is the
php code that creates a QueryDSL
>
I have tried a bunch of combinations and have really failed to figure it
out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/struggling-with-understand-how-to-add-boost-if-a-field-is-true/7101/2 "2012-03-25T11:39:44Z")
Maybe custom\_filters\_score will do the trick?
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/custom-filters-score-query.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/custom-filters-score-query.html).
Wrap your query with it, and add a filter on the boolean field, if its
true, you can adjust the score in this case.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Scott Reynolds [sdrreynolds@gmail.com](mailto:sdrreynolds@gmail.com)wrote:
> I have a set of documents that have a field user\_verified that is either
> true or false. When executing a disjunction max query I want documents
> where the user\_verified is true to be given a boost.
>
> I thought the answer was constant\_score, but I have really failed to
> figure out how to make this work. I am missing something fundmental. Here
> is the php code that creates a QueryDSL
>
> [gist:2164332 ยท GitHub](https://gist.github.com/2164332)
>
> I have tried a bunch of combinations and have really failed to figure it
> out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/struggling-with-understand-how-to-add-boost-if-a-field-is-true/7101/3 "2017-07-06T03:34:55Z")