I see the problem, but there are no possibilities for normalization as the upper limit could be anything in different cases (hard to explain). I think it is better for me to just apply the correct type of sorting with an array/list with some script. This is just for getting the facet values to look pretty in a filter menu.
I knew this question was a shot in the dark, but thank you for a nice explanation and possible solution! Aleksander Akerø @ Gurusoft AS Mobil: 944 89 054 QR-Code (Kontaktinfo) -----Original Message----- From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] Sent: 15. august 2012 19:00 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Facet sort numeric values the problem you're running into is that lexical ordering of numeric data != numeric ordering. If you have a mixed alpha and numeric data, you man not care if the alpha stuff is first, i.e. asdb456 asdf490 sorts fine. Problems happen with 9jsdf 100ukel the 100ukel comes first. So if you have a mixed alpha and numeric situation, you have to either live with it or normalize the numeric data so it lexical ordering == numeric ordering, the most common way is to left-pad numeric data to a fixed-width, i.e. rather than index asb9fg, index asb0000009fg. Of course you have to know what the upper limit of any digit is for this to work... Best Erick On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Aleksander Akerø <solraleksan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh brilliant, didn't think of it being possible to configure that way. > > Had made my own "untokenized" type, so I guess it would be better for > me to control datatype this way. > > Bonus question (hehe): What if these field values also contain > alphanumeric values? E.g. "Alpha, Bravo, Omega, ... " > How would this affect the sorting? I guess the TrieIntField is not > applicable then. > > Aleksander Akerø > @ Gurusoft AS > Mobil: 944 89 054 > QR-Code (Kontaktinfo) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] > Sent: 14. august 2012 17:45 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Facet sort numeric values > > > : I'm having a problem with sorting facets. I am using the > facet.sort=index > : parameter and it works fine for most of the values. > ... > : Eksample, when sorting "15, 6, 23, 7, 10, 90" it sorts like this: > "10, 15, > : 23, 6, 7, 90", but what I wanted was "6, 7, 10, 15, 23, 90". > > what field type are you using? > > If you use one of the Trie___Field types then the facet values should > sort exactly as you describe. > > <fieldType name="int" class="solr.TrieIntField" precisionStep="0" > positionIncrementGap="0"/> <fieldType name="float" > class="solr.TrieFloatField" precisionStep="0" > positionIncrementGap="0"/> <fieldType name="long" class="solr.TrieLongField" precisionStep="0" > positionIncrementGap="0"/> <fieldType name="double" > class="solr.TrieDoubleField" precisionStep="0" > positionIncrementGap="0"/> > > > > -Hoss >
