: What I'm doing now is taking the whole resulting document collection, : iterating through it and manually moving these 10 documents to the front : of the collection. This is slow and ugly. I was hoping there might be : a slicker way to do it as part of the actual sort. I will play around : with the custom sorting and report back if I figure out an elegant way : to do it.
you could definitely do this with a Custom Sort ... but a simpler way to go would be to do two searches. if the users's basic search criteria is soemthing like "foo:bar +yak:wak" and the criteria for identifying the documents you want to return is "promote:yes" then first issue a search for "+promote:yes +(foo:bar +yak:wak)" and display the first N, and keep track of hte identity of the N that you display Then do a search for "foo:bar +yak:wak -id:id1 -id:id2 -id:id3 ... -id:idN" this is assuming that you you only want to display the first N (sounds like N is ten) but there might be a lot more then N which match but you want the rest to display in their regular spots. if you want them *ALL* to be in the front, then making your second search "-promote:yes +(foo:bar +yak:wak)" should work just fine. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
