It can be achieved by creating own (app specific) custom comparators for fields defined in schema.xml and having an extra attribute to specify the comparator class in the field tag itself. But it will require changes in the Solr to support this feature. (Not sure if it's feasible though just throwing an idea.)
-param On 8/4/11 4:29 PM, "Jonathan Rochkind" <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > No, it can not. It just sorts "alphabetically", actually by raw byte-order. > > No other facet sorting functionality is available, and it would be > tricky to implement in a performant way because of the way lucene > works. But it would certainly be useful to me too if someone could > figure out a way to do it. > > On 8/4/2011 2:43 PM, Way Cool wrote: >> Thanks Eric for your reply. I am aware of facet.sort, but I haven't used it. >> I will try that though. >> >> Can it handle the values below in the correct order? >> Under 10 >> 10 - 20 >> 20 - 30 >> Above 30 >> >> Or >> Small >> Medium >> Large >> XL >> ... >> >> My second question is that if Solr can't do that for the values above by >> using facet.sort. Is there any other ways in Solr? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> YH >> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Erick Erickson<erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> have you looked at the facet.sort parameter? The "index" value is what I >>> think you want. >>> >>> Best >>> Erick >>> On Aug 3, 2011 7:03 PM, "Way Cool"<way1.wayc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, guys, >>>> >>>> Is there anyway to sort differently for facet values? For example, >>> sometimes >>>> I want to sort facet values by their values instead of # of docs, and I >>> want >>>> to be able to have a predefined order for certain facets as well. Is that >>>> possible in Solr we can do that? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> YH
