Thanks for the note, Shaun, but the documentation indicates that the sorting is only in ascending order :-(
facet.sort This param determines the ordering of the facet field constraints. • count - sort the constraints by count (highest count first) • index - to return the constraints sorted in their index order (lexicographic by indexed term). For terms in the ascii range, this will be alphabetically sorted. The default is count if facet.limit is greater than 0, index otherwise. Prior to Solr1.4, one needed to use true instead of count and false instead of index. This parameter can be specified on a per field basis. -Pete On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:49 AM, Shaun Campbell wrote: > Pete > > Surely the default sort order for facets is by descending count order. See > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters. If your results are > really sorted in ascending order can't you sort them externally eg Java? > > Hope that helps. > > Shaun