At least you don't need to store the sort field. Or even index, if it is docvalues (good for sort).
Regards, Alex On 24 Jun 2016 9:01 AM, "Jay Potharaju" <jspothar...@gmail.com> wrote: > yes, that is what i thought. but was checking to see if there was something > I was missing. > Thanks > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > Hi Jay, > > > > I don't think it can be combined. > > Mainly because: searching requires a tokenized field. > > Sorting requires a single value (token) to be meaningful. > > > > Ahmet > > > > > > > > On Thursday, June 23, 2016 7:43 PM, Jay Potharaju <jspothar...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to have 1 field that can used for both searching and case > > insensitive sorting. As far as i know the only way to do is to have two > > fields one for searching (text_en) and one for sorting(lowercase & > string). > > Any ideas how the two can be combined into 1 field. > > > > > > -- > > Thanks > > Jay Potharaju > > > > > > -- > Thanks > Jay Potharaju >