I am pretty sure your reality is correct and your document reading (or document itself) is less than perfect. docValues are strongly recommended if you are going to do a lot of sorting. But the ability to sort existed before docValues were created.
Can you send the specific (version-specific ideally) link and quote that confuses you? Regards, Alex. On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 11:02, Mónica Marrero <monica.marr...@europeana.eu> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Solr 7.7 in Cloud, and I had understood from the > documentation that sorting is not possible in multivalued fields when > docValues is not activated. To my surprise I am able to directly sort (e.g. > sort=CREATOR asc) using the two fields below (I also copy the definition of > the field types): > > <fieldType name="int" class="solr.TrieIntField" precisionStep="0" > positionIncrementGap="0"/><fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField" > sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/> > <field name="CREATOR" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued > ="true"/> > <field name="filter_tags" type="int" indexed="true" stored="true" > multiValued="true"/> > > Am I missing something? The schema version is still 0.8 in case that makes > any difference. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > -- > Disclaimer: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential > and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are > addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the > system manager. If you are not the named addressee you should not > disseminate, > distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender > immediately by email if you have received this email by mistake and delete > this email from your > system.
