Hi, We are indexing a set objects with fields like objectName, objectDescription etc. All the objects have objectName specified in English language; some objects also have their name specified in an additional language like French and indexed to objectName_fr field.
When we query from SOLR, we want to display objects sorted by objectName. If the logged-in user's locale is French, we want to display french object name for objects that have this and display english language name for rest of the objects. For sorting in ascending order, I specified: "objectName_collated_fr asc, objectName_lowercase asc" in SOLR query. Here "objectName_lowercase" is of field type "lowercase" (with KeywordTokenizerFactory & LowerCaseFilterFactory) and "objectName_collated_fr" is of field type " ICUCollationField" with locale="fr". When sorting in ascending order, I noticed that all objects with English only object names got displayed first and then those objects with English & French names came at the end. I am assuming that the objects with English only object names came first because these didn't have values for the french field and treated equivalent to null/empty values for french field. But when sort order is changed to descending (objectName_collated_fr desc, objectName_lowercase desc), objects with English & French came first and the objects; again the reason is same as the one mentioned above. Let me know if this behavior is correct. Thanks, Vasu
