Have you looked at the Searcher.search variant
that takes a Sort parameter?

Best
Erick

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Dragon Fly <dragon-fly...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Let's say I have 6 documents and each document has 2 fields (i.e. 
> CustomerName and OrderDate).  For example:
>
> Doc 1    John    20120115
> Doc 2    Mary    20120113
> Doc 3    Peter   20120117
> Doc 4    Kate    20120208
> Doc 5    John    20120211
> Doc 6    Alan    20110423
>
> Is there a way to execute a search to return the document with the most 
> recent OrderDate for a CustomerName? For instance, if I search for John, it 
> should return Doc 5 (because Doc 5 is more recent than Doc 1).  Thank you.

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