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KallDrexx
KallDrexx

Reputation: 27803

Why can my GSA not sort when ORs are used?

In our GSA I am trying to retrieve documents that either have a "XosContentType" metadata tag of either "article" or "ooyala". To do retrieve this I run the following search command:

/search?q=&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&num=7&start=0&filter=0&requiredfields=(XosContentType%3aarticle%7cXosContentType%3aooyala)&sort=date:D:R:d1

While this gives me results correctly matching my requiredfields criteria they are not sorted at all. For example, the following are the order of the nodes I am receiving

<FS NAME="date" VALUE="2012-07-13"/>
<FS NAME="date" VALUE="2012-07-25"/>
<FS NAME="date" VALUE="2012-05-23"/>
<FS NAME="date" VALUE="2012-03-10"/>
<FS NAME="date" VALUE="2012-05-15"/>

And it just goes on and on like this. If I only search by one criteria then everything sorts correctly, but using both fails sorting.

So how can I get sorting to work properly? I really don't want to have to do searches and combine the results myself because that will massively complicate paging.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 660

Answers (2)

Will
Will

Reputation: 6286

You can also add a query term of 

site:mywebsite.com

But that will only work if all your data belongs to the same domain.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Cizmar
Michael Cizmar

Reputation: 462

I believe you need to supply a query term to sort by date. Try switching your required fields filter to be inmeta.

See this:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/Google-Search-Appliance-Help/8oSW7nZBMuw

Upvotes: 2

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