bq: Is there no way that the existing field can be used? In a word, "no". The indexed terms are being used for sorting. You have a document that has the title "aardvark zebra". The actual _tokens_ are aardvark zebra
solr/Lucene has no way of knowing whether these should be sorted by "a" or "z". The copyfield to a string type then sorting by that is a good idea, although you may want to normalize the field (i.e. lowercase, remove punctuation, possibly remove stopwords etc). Best, Erick On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:27 PM, davidphilip cherian <davidphilipcher...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > >> > >>
