: What I can't quite figure out is how, when including all results, to sort : the results by whether they are "active" or not. In other words, have all : products within the date range appear before the products outside the date : range (or vice versa).
if you want it to function as a true "sort" option (as in: you want to sort by active or not, then sort by some rating field, then sort by score as a final resort) it isn't possible in 1.4 (but Grant's roadmap for spatial work in the next version of Solr will include the ability to specify an arbitrary function as a sort "field" so it should be possible eventually) what you can do if you normally sort by score is to "boost" the score of any docs that match your active criteria, so that they score much much higher then docs which are not active... q=+(your query) (startDate:[* TO NOW] -endDate:[* TO NOW])^100000 -Hoss
