If you want to have some categories before another ones, but the other categories sorted alphabeticaly, you could create another field on your index like cat_priority and put numerical values, so you can sort by this field and by secondarily by your category name.
2008/5/27 anuvenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Question about sorting with solr. I want to group results in certain sort > order so i can split them & display in tabs easily. > I want to be able to have a custom sort order instead of sort=cat asc score > desc > In the above mentioned way, categories are grouped in ascending order. But > i > want certain categories to come up first in the sort order. I don't want > them to be grouped in ascending order. Please shed some light anyone. How > to > do it. Is it possible? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/solr-sorting-question-tp17498596p17498596.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Alexander Ramos Jardim