Examine Sort Order Issue
# help-with-umbracoc
CodeSharePaul
08/15/2024, 10:25 AMIs anyone around to help me solve an examine sort order issue please.
I have got it down to a very simple example and I think sorting is broken in examine, or maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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Warren Buckley
08/15/2024, 10:40 AMWhen I question stuff like this. I tend to clone down Shan's Examine repo
Warren Buckley
08/15/2024, 10:41 AMand use his tests in that project to try and write the same query as a new test to verify/confirm if its a bug or if its just me. 99% of the time its me
Warren Buckley
08/15/2024, 10:42 AMBut quick one in the record you are looking for does it have the magic string prefix it does on the field you want sorted.
Its something like __sortMyField or something similar (I can never rember syntax)
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CodeSharePaul
08/15/2024, 10:49 AMThanks Warren, I followed this blog post but the magic __Sort_nodeName field isn't appearing. https://umbracare.net/blog/enable-nodename-field-sorting-in-umbraco-examine-search/
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Warren Buckley
08/15/2024, 10:58 AMHmm yeh if your record your hoping to find does not have it. If you use LUKE to browse through the index. Then suspect something going wrong in adding the new sortable field
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huwred
08/15/2024, 11:13 AMsorting by Strings appears to be broken @Debasish posted about it, I tested in 13 and doesn't work either
huwred
08/15/2024, 11:14 AM__Sort_yourfieldname
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Warren Buckley
08/15/2024, 11:15 AMBug report on Umbraco or shans Examine repo to follow along?
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CodeSharePaul
08/15/2024, 11:19 AMFixed thanks to help from Callum
https://github.com/prjseal/Examine-Sorting/pull/1
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Warren Buckley
08/15/2024, 12:47 PMCool whats the TLDR version of the problem
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CodeSharePaul
08/15/2024, 12:49 PMTLDR was that I was using a component to do the addorupdate for the fulltextsortable field,
when in fact I should have been using one of these
ConfigureIndexOptions : IConfigureNamedOptions<LuceneDirectoryIndexOptions>Configurew
Warren Buckley
08/15/2024, 1:08 PMOK interesting - good to know if anyone gets caught out in the future (probably myself) 😄
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CodeSharePaul
08/15/2024, 1:09 PMYeah, Deba is gonna write a blog post about it
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bielu
08/15/2024, 5:07 PMProtip use postconfigure option or umbraco/examine might override your values if for some reason they load faster
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Debasish
08/21/2024, 5:21 PMI have written a blog on this explaining the solution and it can be found here https://www.debasish.tech/blogs/how-to-sort-on-a-string-field-in-umbraco-examine. Thank you everyone!
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bielu
08/21/2024, 9:06 PM@Debasish small advice:
if you using examinex / my elastic provider for examine you need specify compose after, you can avoid it by usage of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.extensions.options.ipostconfigureoptions-1?view=net-8.0 which I mentioned earlier, it is really annoying but I did experience issues with it (also with umbraco overriding because my compose was running too early)
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Debasish
08/22/2024, 4:56 AMThanks @bielu for your feedback. Will keep that in mind
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