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Sorting with IQueryExpression for EPiServer Full Text Search

Tore Gjerdrum
Tore Gjerdrum
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Hi,

We are using the EPiServer Full Text Search in a solution for a customer. They want to be able to specify a sorting parameter that we can send to the SearchHandler to get the search result sorted from the IndexingService. Is it possible to do this? Is it possible to write a class that implements the IQueryExpression interface to do so?

#140395
Oct 19, 2015 11:32
EthanX
EthanX
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Just want to ask, did you find a way to sort in Full Text Search?

I need the same thing, but when I dug into the source code I found that there is no lucene sort object passed in when search.

And there is no sort syntax for lucene, so it seems that custom IQueryExpression is a dead end.

#142445
Dec 10, 2015 21:54
Drew Null
Drew Null
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Any update on this question? I'd like to do the same thing. Use IQueryExpression to sort search results on a custom field. 

#142951
Jan 06, 2016 19:27
Tore Gjerdrum
Tore Gjerdrum
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Hi guys,

Registered a support case with EPiServer on this matter and the conclusion was that this is not supported at the moment.

#142959
Jan 07, 2016 8:19
Drew Null
Drew Null
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Thanks for the follow up, Tore. I had also tried to game Lucene's scoring to sort by a custom field, but that didn't work out. Guess we can chalk this up to another selling point on Find. 

#142966
Jan 07, 2016 15:57
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