How are you hoping that Sort will work on a multivalued field? Normally,
trying to do this makes no sense.
For example, if you have two authors for a document:
Smith, John
Jones, Joe
Then would you expect the document to sort under 'S' for Smith, or 'J' for
Jones? There's probably not a specific rule to choose one or the other, at
least not in a generic sense.
If you wanted (for example) to be able to sort by the first author, then you
could index just the first author in a separate, non-multivalued field, purely
for the sort (while still having all the authors in your multivalued field)
Bob Sandiford | Lead Software Engineer | SirsiDynix
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anupam Bhattacharya [mailto:anupam...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:13 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Workaround needed to sort on Multivalued fields indexed in SOLR
I have indexed many documents which has a field for authors which is
multivalued.
<field name="authors" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued
="true"/>
How can I sort & order by on this kind of multivalued field ? Pls. suggest any
workaround ?
Thanks
Anupam
