Lucene/Solr Sort results by order of ID's passed in

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Using SOLR 3.6 I have a query like ?fq=nid:(4 6 2 3 1) and the results are coming back in a new order like (6 4 3 2 1) instead of the order passed in. Is there a way without using boosts to get the results it the same order as I passed in.

Did You find some easy solution for this issue? I have the same problem. — pWoz, Oct 10 '14 at 09:50
Does this answer your question? [Is it possible in solr to specify an ordering of documents](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19813548/is-it-possible-in-solr-to-specify-an-ordering-of-documents) — Ahmad Abdelghany, Oct 17 '22 at 12:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '14 at 10:20

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Docs are returned according to the sort param. By default that is by score. In order to set a different sort you just have to pass a desired sort order. Can you do that? If you cannot, then probably the only easy way is as you say, boosting the docs accordingly and leaving score sort.

But, fq is a filter, that does not have any effect on the score of docs, you would need to boost on the q param (or other places but that is the easiest).

answered Feb 28 '14 at 10:20

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But is there any sort order that can be passed to query which will tell solr to sort results in same order like in query? – pWoz Oct 10 '14 at 09:58
Wondering the same thing. – Karl Kildén Mar 01 '16 at 15:31

Lucene/Solr Sort results by order of ID's passed in

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