When you index the keyword field (for sort), you'll probably need to lower case the term before indexing.
-----Original Message----- From: Daly, Pete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:38 AM To: Lucene Users List Subject: RE: Sorting on a long string > How are you indexing the name field? (code please :) doc.add(Field.Text("name", name)); Based on Aviron's suggestion, if I index as a Keyword, the sort works fine. > Normally random order?! The natural (not using a Sort) order is by > score (also called relevance). Nothing random about it at all. In > fact, this ordering is very special! See the Javadocs on the > Similarity class for details of the formula. Score makes sense then. I didn't think about sort by score since I was specifying a specific sort to use instead. > No limitations that I know if. Some bugs have been fixed, so be sure > you're using Lucene 1.4.1, and not just 1.4, but please report back > with more details if this issue still occurs in 1.4.1. Looks like switching to keyword is the solution. Can someone describe what abilities I would be losing by using Keyword instead of Text. I am indexing people's name, which are searched on my partial name quite a bit. Can a Keyword consisting of more than one "word" be searched on just as well as a "Text" field, or do I need to index both ways in order to keep functionality with sorting ability? Thanks all for your help, -Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
