diff --git a/lib/task/search/arSolrSearchTask.class.php b/lib/task/search/arSolrSearchTask.class.php
index f1c3b7bc58..00c4300ca5 100644
--- a/lib/task/search/arSolrSearchTask.class.php
+++ b/lib/task/search/arSolrSearchTask.class.php
@@ -71,28 +71,41 @@ protected function configure()
 EOF;
     }
 
+    private function createQuery($queryText, $fields)
+    {
+        $query = new arSolrQuery(arSolrPluginUtil::escapeTerm($queryText));
+        if ($fields) {
+            $fieldsArr = explode(',', $fields);
+            $newFields = [];
+            foreach ($fieldsArr as $field) {
+                $newField = explode('^', $field);
+                $fieldName = $newField[0];
+                $fieldBoost = $newField[1];
+                if (!$fieldBoost) {
+                    $fieldBoost = 1;
+                }
+                $newFields[$fieldName] = (int) $fieldBoost;
+            }
+            $query->setFields(arSolrPluginUtil::getBoostedSearchFields($newFields));
+        }
+
+        return $query;
+    }
+
     private function runSolrQuery($solrInstance, $queryText, $rows, $start, $fields, $type)
     {
         $modelType = 'QubitInformationObject';
         if ('matchall' === $type) {
             $query = new arSolrMatchAllQuery();
             $modelType = null;
+        } elseif ('bool' === $type) {
+            $query = new arSolrBoolQuery();
+            $mustClause = $this->createQuery($queryText, $fields);
+            $mustClause->setType($modelType);
+            $query->addMust($mustClause);
         } else {
-            $query = new arSolrQuery(arSolrPluginUtil::escapeTerm($queryText));
-            if ($fields) {
-                $fieldsArr = explode(',', $fields);
-                $newFields = [];
-                foreach ($fieldsArr as $field) {
-                    $newField = explode('^', $field);
-                    $fieldName = $newField[0];
-                    $fieldBoost = $newField[1];
-                    if (!$fieldBoost) {
-                        $fieldBoost = 1;
-                    }
-                    $newFields[$fieldName] = (int) $fieldBoost;
-                }
-                $query->setFields(arSolrPluginUtil::getBoostedSearchFields($newFields));
-            }
+            $query = $this->createQuery($queryText, $fields);
+            $query->setType($modelType);
         }
         $query->setSize($rows);
         $query->setOffset($start);
diff --git a/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/arSolrPlugin.class.php b/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/arSolrPlugin.class.php
index 8eadf6e55c..06c66af7d5 100644
--- a/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/arSolrPlugin.class.php
+++ b/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/arSolrPlugin.class.php
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
  */
 class arSolrPlugin extends QubitSearchEngine
 {
+    public $lang_codes = ['ar', 'hy', 'ba', 'br', 'bg', 'ca', 'cz', 'da', 'nl', 'en', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'ge', 'el', 'hi', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'no', 'fa', 'pt', 'ro', 'ru', 'es', 'sv', 'tr'];
+
+    public $langs = [];
+
     /**
      * Mappings configuration, mapping.yml.
      *
@@ -36,10 +40,6 @@ class arSolrPlugin extends QubitSearchEngine
      */
     protected $enabled = true;
 
-    public $lang_codes = ['ar','hy','ba','br','bg','ca','cz','da','nl','en','fi','fr','gl','ge','el','hi','hu','id','it','no','fa','pt','ro','ru','es','sv','tr'];
-
-    public $langs = [];
-
     /**
      * Constructor.
      */
@@ -254,9 +254,6 @@ public function getSolrCollection()
     public function search($query, $type)
     {
         $url = $this->getSolrUrl().'/solr/'.$this->getSolrCollection().'/query';
-        if ($type) {
-            $query->setType($type);
-        }
         $response = arSolrPlugin::makeHttpRequest($url, 'POST', json_encode($query->getQueryParams()));
 
         return new arSolrResultSet($response);
@@ -334,14 +331,14 @@ private function addAutoCompleteFields()
         // since this field does not include a language code, it is added to
         // $addCopyField manually
         $autocompleteFields = [
-            "QubitRepository.i18n.en.authorizedFormOfName",
-            "QubitInformationObject.aip.type.i18n.en.name",
-            "QubitInformationObject.i18n.en.title",
-            "QubitActor.i18n.en.authorizedFormOfName",
-            "QubitActor.places.i18n.en.name",
-            "QubitActor.subjects.i18n.en.name",
-            "QubitTerm.i18n.en.name",
-            "QubitAip.type.i18n.en.name"
+            'QubitRepository.i18n.en.authorizedFormOfName',
+            'QubitInformationObject.aip.type.i18n.en.name',
+            'QubitInformationObject.i18n.en.title',
+            'QubitActor.i18n.en.authorizedFormOfName',
+            'QubitActor.places.i18n.en.name',
+            'QubitActor.subjects.i18n.en.name',
+            'QubitTerm.i18n.en.name',
+            'QubitAip.type.i18n.en.name',
         ];
 
         foreach ($this->langs as $lang) {
@@ -421,7 +418,8 @@ private function addSubProperties($properties, &$propertyFields, $parentType = '
         }
     }
 
-    private function setLanguageType($fieldName) {
+    private function setLanguageType($fieldName)
+    {
         $substrings = explode('.', $fieldName);
         $lang = $substrings[count($substrings) - 2];
 
diff --git a/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/query/arSolrBoolQuery.class.php b/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/query/arSolrBoolQuery.class.php
index d53bdade39..8f92d285a3 100644
--- a/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/query/arSolrBoolQuery.class.php
+++ b/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/query/arSolrBoolQuery.class.php
@@ -24,39 +24,44 @@ class arSolrBoolQuery extends arSolrAbstractQuery
      *
      * @return arSolrBoolQuery object
      */
-    public function generateBoolQuery()
+    public function generateQueryParams()
     {
         $params = $this->getParams();
 
-        $mustQuery = [
-            'must' => [
-                [
-                    'dismax' => [
-                        'qf' => implode(' ', $params['fields']),
-                        'query' => $params['must'],
-                    ],
+        $mustQuery = [];
+        foreach ($params['must'] as $query) {
+            $mustClause = [
+                'edismax' => [
+                    'query' => $query->getSearchQuery(),
+                    'q.op' => $query->getOperator(),
+                    'stopwords' => 'true',
+                    'qf' => implode(' ', $query->getFields()),
                 ],
-            ],
-        ];
+            ];
+            array_push($mustQuery, $mustClause);
+        }
 
-        $mustNotQuery = [
-            'must_not' => [[
-                'query' => $params['must_not'],
-            ]],
+        $mustQuery = [
+            'must' => $mustQuery,
         ];
 
-        $mmQuery = [
-            'qf' => $qf.'^'.$params['boost'],
-            'mm' => $params['minimum_should_match'],
-        ];
+        if ($params['must_not']) {
+            $mustNotQuery = [
+                'must_not' => [[
+                    'query' => $params['must_not'],
+                ]],
+            ];
+        }
 
         $boolQuery = [
             'query' => [
-                'bool' => array_merge($mustQuery, $mustNotQuery, $mmQuery),
+                'bool' => $mustQuery,
             ],
+            'offset' => $this->offset,
+            'limit' => $this->size,
         ];
 
-        return $params;
+        $this->query = $boolQuery;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -121,10 +126,17 @@ public function setMinimumShouldMatch($minimum): self
         return $this->setParam('minimum_should_match', $minimum);
     }
 
+    public function getQueryParams()
+    {
+        $this->generateQueryParams();
+
+        return $this->query;
+    }
+
     protected function _addQuery(string $type, $args): self
     {
-        if (!\is_array($args) && !($args instanceof arSolrAbstractQuery)) {
-            throw new Exception('Invalid parameter. Has to be array or instance of Elastica\Query\AbstractQuery');
+        if (!\is_array($args) && !($args instanceof arSolrQuery)) {
+            throw new Exception('Invalid parameter. Has to be array or instance of arSolrAbstractQuery');
         }
 
         return $this->addParam($type, $args);
diff --git a/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/query/arSolrQuery.class.php b/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/query/arSolrQuery.class.php
index aef3f2c2e9..9488f29dc9 100644
--- a/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/query/arSolrQuery.class.php
+++ b/plugins/arSolrPlugin/lib/query/arSolrQuery.class.php
@@ -86,6 +86,21 @@ public function setSearchQuery($searchQuery)
         $this->searchQuery = $searchQuery;
     }
 
+    public function getFields()
+    {
+        return $this->fields;
+    }
+
+    public function getOperator()
+    {
+        return $this->operator;
+    }
+
+    public function getSearchQuery()
+    {
+        return $this->searchQuery;
+    }
+
     public function getQueryParams()
     {
         $this->generateQueryParams();