Re: Random sort with groups

2013-08-03 Thread Erick Erickson
Why can't you shuffle in the app? Once you have the groups returned, _how_ you display them is up to you. And you can sort the groups based on fields. Best Erick On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Bruno René Santos wrote: > Hi Erick, > > Yes we have lots of documents with the same score. We turned

Re: Random sort with groups

2013-08-02 Thread Bruno René Santos
Hi Erick, Yes we have lots of documents with the same score. We turned off IDF and on some fields also the norms and frequencies. And so on a business point of view we need to shuffle those results in order to give the opportunity to any document with the highest score to be in first. The problem

Re: Random sort with groups

2013-08-02 Thread Erick Erickson
bq: We sort first by the score and then by a random field. This is highly unlikely to produce anything useful. Your secondary sort (random field) will only be used if your primary sort (score) matches exactly, which is usually quite rare. Unless you're somehow doing a constant-score query (e.g. *:

Random sort with groups

2013-08-02 Thread Bruno René Santos
Hello, We are trying to make a random sort with a query where we are grouping results by a field. On one example we always have one of the results on the top of the query result. We sort first by the score and then by a random field. We think that is because this group has 214 items inside and th