But it would be a lot harder than either splitting them out into separate docs, or writing code to re-index docs when one of their 'next-event' dates passes, with a new single valued 'next-event' field. Less efficient, but easier to write/manage.
Upayavira On Tue, Dec 4, 2012, at 07:35 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > : perfectly, but users expect the result set to be ordered by the next > start > : time. > ... > : Is there a more elegant way to do this in Solr? A function query or > : subquery maybe? I thought about it for quite a while and couldn't come > up > : with a viable solution. > > I think you could concievably write a custom function that built an > UnInvertedField over your multivalued field, and then returned the > "lowest > value for each doc where the value is after 'NOW'" but there is nothing > out of the box that will do this for you (and i haven't really thought > hard about how viable this approach is ... i can't think of any obvious > problems off the top of my head) > > -Hoss
