I don't think there is anything like that built right into Solr, but it looks like something that should be easy enough to add to your search app talking to Solr.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Solr - Lucene - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Andy <angelf...@yahoo.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 3:47:26 PM > Subject: only use sorting when there's no "q" is "*:*"? > > Is it possible to set up Solr such that when there's no query (client would > send > in "*:*" for "q"), Solr would sort results (basically all the documents) by > date > or some other criterion. > > And when there is a query other than "*:*", I'd want the results to be ranked > by > score. > > Is that something that's possible?