I believe they come back alphabetically sorted (not sure if this is language specific or not), so a quick way might be to change the name from createdate to zz_createdate or something like that.
Generally with XML you should not be worried about order however. It's usually a sign of a design issue somewhere if the order of the fields matters. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Customize-order-field-list-tp1007996p1008924.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.