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Kitten Survives 6500-Mile Trip in China-US Container - Jakarta Globe Guard survives hail of bullets - Jakarta Post On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Give us some pairs of titles which sort the wrong way. > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Anupam Bhattacharya > <anupam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The approach used to work perfectly. > > > > But recently i realized that it is not working for more than 300000 > indexed > > records. > > I am using SOLR 3.5 version. > > > > Is there another approach to SORT a title field in proper alphabetical > > order irrespective of Lower case and Upper case. > > > > Regards > > Anupam > > > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >> > The title sort works in a strange manner because the SOLR > >> > server treats > >> > title string based on Upper Case or Lower Case String. Thus > >> > if we sort in > >> > ascending order, first the title with numeric shows up then > >> > the titles in > >> > alphabetical order which starts with Upper Case & after > >> > that the titles > >> > starting with Lowercase. > >> > > >> > The title field is indexed as text_general fieldtype. > >> > > >> > <field name="title" type="text_general" indexed="true" > >> > stored="true"/> > >> > >> Please see Otis' response http://search-lucene.com/m/uDxTF1scW0d2 > >> > >> Simply create an additional field named title_sortable with the > following > >> type > >> > >> <!-- lowercases the entire field value, keeping it as a single token. > --> > >> <fieldType name="lowercase" class="solr.TextField" > >> positionIncrementGap="100"> > >> <analyzer> > >> <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/> > >> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" /> > >> <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" /> > >> </analyzer> > >> </fieldType> > >> > >> Populate it via copyField directive : > >> > >> <copyField source="title" dest="title_sortable" maxChars="N"/> > >> > >> then &sort=title_sortable asc > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Lance Norskog > goks...@gmail.com > -- Thanks & Regards Anupam Bhattacharya
