Hi Terry, let me go in order : /"Tried creation_date: 2016-11. That's supposed to match documents with any November 2016 date. But actually produces: |"Invalid Date String:'2016-11'| "/
Is "*DateRangeField*" the field type for your field : "creation_date" ? [1] You mentioned : org.apache.solr.schema.TrieDateField, this is not going to work, you need the specific field type I mentioned to use that date range syntax. /"||And Solr doesn't seem to let me sort on a date field. Tried creation_date asc Produced: |"can not sort on multivalued field: creation_date"| "/ Is your "creation_date" single valued ? If it is single valued semantically, make sure it is defined as single valued in the schema. Solr doesn't support sorting on multi valued fields. You schemaless conf may have assigned the multi valued attribute to that field. >From the Wiki[2] : "Solr can sort query responses according to document scores or the value of any field with a single value that is either indexed or uses DocValues (that is, any field whose attributes in the Schema include multiValued="false" and either docValues="true" or indexed="true" – if the field does not have DocValues enabled, the indexed terms are used to build them on the fly at runtime), provided that:" Hope this helps, Regards [1] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/working-with-dates.html#WorkingwithDates-DateRangeFormatting [2] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/common-query-parameters.html#CommonQueryParameters-ThesortParameter ----- --------------- Alessandro Benedetti Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director Sease Ltd. - www.sease.io -- Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html
