you should use string type instead of text if you want to sort alphabetically
2015-10-30 11:12 GMT-07:00 Brian Narsi <bnars...@gmail.com>: > I have a fieldtype setup as > > <fieldType name="txt_edgngrm" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap= > "100"> <analyzer type="index"> <tokenizer class= > "solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class= > "solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" > minGramSize="3" maxGramSize="25"/> </analyzer> <analyzer type="query"> < > tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class= > "solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> </fieldType> > > > When I sort on this field type in ascending order I am not getting results > sorted alphabetically as expected. > > Why is that? > > What should I do to get the sort on? > > Thanks >