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Robert Muir commented on SOLR-5084:
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I think sorting is a major use case. With some of these previous examples like 
risk or issue tracker status, you want to sort by the field and for 'high' risk 
to sort after 'low', maybe 'closed' after 'created' and so on.
                
> new field type - EnumField
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-5084
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5084
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Elran Dvir
>         Attachments: enumsConfig.xml, schema_example.xml, Solr-5084.patch, 
> Solr-5084.patch, Solr-5084.patch
>
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> We have encountered a use case in our system where we have a few fields 
> (Severity. Risk etc) with a closed set of values, where the sort order for 
> these values is pre-determined but not lexicographic (Critical is higher than 
> High). Generically this is very close to how enums work.
> To implement, I have prototyped a new type of field: EnumField where the 
> inputs are a closed predefined  set of strings in a special configuration 
> file (similar to currency.xml).
> The code is based on 4.2.1.

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