Hi Mark, Having a look at that requestHandler it looks ok [1], are you experiencing any errors? If so did you check the wiki page FieldOptionsByUseCase [2], maybe that field (rankNo) options contain indexed="false" or multiValued="true"? HTH, Tommaso
[1] : http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters#sort [2] : http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldOptionsByUseCase 2012/2/17 geeky2 <gee...@hotmail.com> > what is the proper syntax for including sort directive in my > responseHandler? > > i tried this but got an error: > > > <requestHandler name="partItemNoSearch" class="solr.SearchHandler" > default="false"> > <lst name="defaults"> > <str name="defType">edismax</str> > <str name="echoParams">all</str> > <int name="rows">10</int> > <str name="qf">itemNo^1.0</str> > <str name="q.alt">*:*</str> > * <str name="sort">rankNo desc</str>* > </lst> > <lst name="appends"> > <str name="fq">itemType:1</str> > </lst> > <lst name="invariants"> > <str name="facet">false</str> > </lst> > </requestHandler> > > > thank you > mark > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/proper-syntax-for-using-sort-query-parameter-in-responseHandler-tp3755077p3755077.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >