Perfect!  I knew that attributes can have multiple values but I didn't
know about the join function.  I thought I had tried max() but I may
have skipped over it (or it didn't work on strings).  Now that I look
at the documentation again I see where they describe the join()
function.  Not sure why I skipped that section last time.

Thanks for the help!

On Jun 26, 5:43 am, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
> this expression has a bug. Attributes are multi-valued, so writing: x
> == "foo" doesn't work as it compares a set of values x with a single
> string. You first need to project the set to a single string and then
> you can compare this string with the given literal. Tthe only way to
> do this is via the join operator (which concatenates all string values
> to a single string -- it's arbitrary for attributes that appear
> multiple times, but it works fine for attributes that appear only
> once).
> This query should work:
>   snippets?bq=[upc(text): "885909174966"]|"Apple MacBook Pro"&orderby=
> [x=upc(text): if exists(x) & (join(x) == "885909174966") then 1 else
> 0]
>
> URL encoded form:
>   snippets?bq=%5Bupc(text)%3A+%22885909174966%22%5D%7C%22Apple+MacBook+Pro%22 
> &orderby=+%5Bx%3Dupc(text)%3A+if+exists(x)+%26+(join(x)+%3D%3D+%22885909174 
> 966%22)+then+1+else+0%5D
> All credit for the answer goes to a colleague of mine who figured out what
> the problem is.
>
> Alex
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Celebird <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > i believe orderby can only sort numeric values regardless
> > of attribute-name-and-type or custom-ranking-criteria --
> > ignoring modification-time and relevancy values.
>
> > a custom-ranking-criteria to meet your requirements
> > would probably need to take this into account -- e.g.
>
> > snippets?bq=[upc:"885909174966"]|"Apple MacBook Pro"&
> > orderby=[x=upc(text):if join(x)=="885909174966" then 1 else 0]
>
> --
> Alex Dovlecel, Google Switzerland GmbH
> Company Identifikationsnummer: CH-020.4.028.116-1
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