You can create a copy field with string type and make it copy from this existing field, and sort on this new one. That way, you can still continue doing text search on existing one and sort on this new field.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Brian Narsi <bnars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there no way that the existing field can be used? > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Ray Niu <newry1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > >
