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Setting Alphabetical Ordering for Facets in Typesense

TLDR Sean inquired about setting the ordering of a facet to alphabetical in Typesense. Jason suggested using transformItems or a normal JS array sort on items.

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Sean

08:32 PM

With Algolia there is an option to set the ordering of a facet to alphabetical. Is there a way to do this with Typesense? I ask because the Refinements component renders selected facet values to the top. Which I think confuses users.

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Jason

08:34 PM

Sean You can configure that behavior using this option in InstantSearch: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/widgets/refinement-list/js/#widget-param-sortby

08:35

Jason

08:35 PM

(Assuming you're using Instantsearch lib with Typesense)

Sean

08:36 PM

Yep, well the react headless version

Jason

08:38 PM

I see, looks like the they don't have an equivalent configuration in react-instantsearch.

So you might have to sort items as needed using transformItems: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/widgets/refinement-list/react/#widget-param-transformitems

Sean

08:43 PM

I should not have overthought this. I got the result with a normal js array sort on items

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