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 different field!)
I would sometimes like to do that too, and haven't really been able to
come up with any great way to do it.
Something involving facetting kind of gets you closer, but ends up being
a huge pain and doesn't get you (or at least me) all the way to
supporting the interface I'd really want.
On 8/3/2011 10:39 AM, Olson, Ron wrote:
Hi all-
Well, this is a problem. I have a list of names as a multi-valued field and I
am searching on this field and need to return the results sorted. I know from
searching and reading the documentation (and getting the error) that sorting on
a multi-valued field isn't possible. Okay, so, what I haven't found is any real
good solution/workaround to the problem. I was wondering what strategies others
have done to overcome this particular situation; collapsing the individual
names into a single field with copyField doesn't work because the name searched
may not be the first name in the field.
Thanks for any hints/tips/tricks.
Ron
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