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Sort order in search and search masks

Michael Hirst
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By default search results are returned sorted by relevance.

In the user interface

In MacroView DMF Explorer when a user runs a search a "Query" tab appears. Clicking on it allows the user to rerun the query and sort by date (oldest or newest) or relevance.

A user can also click on the column headings of the search results to re-sort the current window. This means that if you are looking at the first 50 results this re-sorts just that 50. Note that most, not all, column headers can be sorted.

Setting search result order in a search mask

This is done in the mask header by including the SortOrder attribute. For example:

<Mask SortOrder="date (newest)" Scope="All Sites" EnableStemming="True" TrimDuplicates="False" Name="Keyword Search Sort Order">

The "SortOrder" attribute can have the following values:

  1. "Relevance" - this is also the default if SortOrder attribute is not supplied
  2. "Date (Newest)" or "write-"
  3. "Date (Oldest)" or "write+"

Sorting results using Number type fields

Displaying a column that is of a number type

<Field Name="Size" DisplayName="Size" Type="Number"/>

A number type is required to be defined otherwise the column will be treated like a string value when sorting.

 

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