Wanted to say thanks to everyone contributed: Erick, Stefan, kenf_nc. Erick a solution based on your proposition has been implemented and pushed to users. Thanks!
Best On 5/19/11, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oooh, that's clever.... > > The glitch is that field collapsing is scheduled for 3.2, but that > probably means > the patch is close to being applicable to 3.1 but I don't know that for > sure. > > Erick > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:36 AM, kenf_nc <ken.fos...@realestate.com> wrote: >> This is more a speculation than direction, I don't currently use Field >> Collapsing but my take on it is that it returns the number of docs >> collapsed. So instead of faceting could you do a search returning DocID, >> collapsing on DocID sorting on date, then the count of collapsed docs >> *should* match the facet count? >> >> Just wondering. >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/sorting-on-date-field-in-facet-query-tp2956540p2961612.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > -- Regards, Dmitry Kan