[SOLR-9674] Facet Values Sort Order: Index should ignore casing

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Facet Module
• Labels: facet features
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Luke P Warwick
• Created: 20/Oct/16 17:28
• Updated: 08/Jun/19 15:28

Description

Index facet value sorting puts all values that start with a capital letter before all values that start with a lower case letter.

Since users often don't know this pattern, nor that the value they are looking for might start with a lower case letter, it leads to confusion and bad experiences, in particular in E-commerce with the 'Brand' Facet.

Desired behavior is that the order ignore case. If two values are otherwise equal (Patagonia,patagonia), put the capital first.

Example:
Current Order: Anon,Marmot,Patagonia,Smith,Zoot,maloja,prAna
Desired Order: Anon,Marmot,maloja,Patagonia,prAna,Smith,Zoot