For anyone who faced the same problem, changing the field to string from text worked!
-Moazzam On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Moazzam Khan <moazz...@gmail.com> wrote: > The field type of the first name and last name is text. Could that be > why it's not sorting properly? I just changed it to string and started > a full-import. Hopefully that will work. > > Thanks, > Moazzam > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Jayendra Patil > <jayendra.patil....@gmail.com> wrote: >> need additional information ..... >> Sorting is easy in Solr just by passing the sort parameter >> >> However, when it comes to text sorting it depends on how you analyse >> and tokenize your fields >> Sorting does not work on fields with multiple tokens. >> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ#Why_Isn.27t_Sorting_Working_on_my_Text_Fields.3F >> >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Moazzam Khan <moazz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> I have a list of people indexed in Solr. I am trying to sort by their >>> first names but I keep getting results that are not alphabetically >>> sorted (I see the names starting with W before the names starting with >>> A). I have a feeling that the results are first being sorted by >>> relevancy then sorted by first name. >>> >>> Is there a way I can get the results to be sorted alphabetically? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Moazzam >>> >> >
