I just implemented a sorting feature on our application where the user can change the sort on a query and reexecute the search. It works fine on text fields where most of the documents have different field values. However, on fields that are categories, that is, there are only four distinct values for the category field and all of the documents fit into a distinct category, the results are not in the sorted values.
All of the sort fields are untokenized and stored. and each document has only one value for the sorted field. Are there any known issues (Lucene 2.3.0)? How can I go about debugging this? I have tried Luke, also I have the Lucene source. Bob Hastings Ancept Inc.
