The approach used to work perfectly. But recently i realized that it is not working for more than 300000 indexed records. I am using SOLR 3.5 version.
Is there another approach to SORT a title field in proper alphabetical order irrespective of Lower case and Upper case. Regards Anupam On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > The title sort works in a strange manner because the SOLR > > server treats > > title string based on Upper Case or Lower Case String. Thus > > if we sort in > > ascending order, first the title with numeric shows up then > > the titles in > > alphabetical order which starts with Upper Case & after > > that the titles > > starting with Lowercase. > > > > The title field is indexed as text_general fieldtype. > > > > <field name="title" type="text_general" indexed="true" > > stored="true"/> > > Please see Otis' response http://search-lucene.com/m/uDxTF1scW0d2 > > Simply create an additional field named title_sortable with the following > type > > <!-- lowercases the entire field value, keeping it as a single token. --> > <fieldType name="lowercase" class="solr.TextField" > positionIncrementGap="100"> > <analyzer> > <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/> > <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" /> > <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" /> > </analyzer> > </fieldType> > > Populate it via copyField directive : > > <copyField source="title" dest="title_sortable" maxChars="N"/> > > then &sort=title_sortable asc > > >
