We fullfilled a similar requirement by creating a new field that is populated at client-level (a standalone app that converts binary data in solr input documents)
Andrea On 1/1/12, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's no good way of enforcing this as far as I know > as you've outlined the problem. You can easily specify > multiple sort criteria, where ties in the first criteria > are broken by the second criteria and so on. > > So, if your records have *no* city value you can do what > you want by specifying the city field to sortMissingLast > then specifying state as your second criteria. > > So you can probably do what you want by breaking > up your location field into fields that are specific > for sorting (probably use copyfield here?) and specifying > as above. > > > Best > Erick > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Gupta, Veeranjaneya > <veeranjaneya.gu...@travelocity.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use Solr 1.4 version and I have a question about SOLR sort order. >> Requirement : Sort names(e.g. : location names like Dallas(City), las >> vegas(City), Texas(State), India(Country), Canada(Country), etc..) based >> on category(e.g. : CITY, STATE, COUNTRY, etc..) >> How to sort the SOLR results based on custom order? >> Expected result : >> >> 1. Dallas >> >> 2. Las Vegas >> >> 3. Texas >> >> 4. Canada >> >> 5. India >> >> Thanks & Regards, Gupta >
