Hi Olly, in #1015198 I also reported useless search results similar to #658227 (still open since 2012).
I found this in the xapian docs. Do you think this would be the best solution to get the results sorted by date? I'm not sure if it would be easy to index all our html documents by date, since the time stamps on the files do not reflect the date of the last modification of the content. Do you know of any other solutions? Sorting by Other Properties If you want to offer a "sort by date" feature, and can arrange for documents to be indexed in date order (or a close-enough approximation), then you can implement a very efficient "sort by date" feature by using a boolean search (i.e. call enquire.set_weighting_scheme(Xapian::BoolWeight());) with enquire.set_docid_order(Xapian::Enquire::DESCENDING); (for newest first) or enquire.set_docid_order(Xapian::Enquire::ASCENDING); (for oldest first). There's no inherent reason why this technique can't be used for sorting by something other than date, but it's usually much easier to arrange for new documents to arrive in date order than in other orders. -- best regards Thomas
