RE: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array?

in the future. Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions! Ron -Original Message- From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 11:36 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Cc: Olson, Ron Subject: Re: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array

Re: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array?

Although you weren't very clear about it, it sounds as if you want the results to be sorted by a name that actually matched the query? In general that is not going to be easy, since it is not something that can be computed in advance and thus indexed. -Mike On 08/03/2011 10:39 AM, Olson,

RE: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array?

@lucene.apache.org Cc: Olson, Ron Subject: Re: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array? Although you weren't very clear about it, it sounds as if you want the results to be sorted by a name that actually matched the query? In general that is not going to be easy, since

Re: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array?

Hi Ron. This is an interesting problem you have. One idea would be to create an index with the entity relationship going in the other direction. So instead of one to many, go many to one. You would end up with multiple documents with varying names but repeated parent entity information --

RE: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array?

. [mailto:dsmi...@mitre.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:26 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array? Hi Ron. This is an interesting problem you have. One idea would be to create an index with the entity relationship going

Re: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array?

There's no great way to do this. I understand your problem as: It's a multi-valued field, but you want to sort on whichever of those values matched the query, not on the values that didn't. (Not entirely clear what to do if the documents are in the result set becuse of a match in an entirely

Re: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array?

Subject: Re: Strategies for sorting by array, when you can't sort by array? Hi Ron. This is an interesting problem you have. One idea would be to create an index with the entity relationship going in the other direction. So instead of one to many, go many to one. You would end up with multiple