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Using Alphabetical Sorting Feature with Typesense-InstantSearch-Adapter

TLDR Jan inquired about using the alphabetical sorting feature with the typesense-instantsearch-adapter. Jason clarified that the feature is available from version 0.26.0.rc.

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Jan

01:13 PM

Hi! We are looking forward to start using the option for sort facet values based on their names (instead of counts)
I’m looking at the github issue [NEW Feature]Sorting facets alphabetically #521 Does this work with the typesense-instantsearch-adapter?
Currently I’m doing it like this with typesense-instantsearrch-adapter. Will the sortBy option work when version 0.26 is available?

        refinementList({
            container: '#relevant-gdpr-articles',
            attribute: 'relevant_gdpr_articles',
            operator: 'and',
            searchable: 'true',
            limit: 0,
            sortBy: ['name:asc'],
       
        }),

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Jason

01:15 PM

The sortBy inside refinementList is client-side sorting done by the widget.

To get Typesense to sort facets alphabetically on the server side, you'd need to set sort_by in additionalSearchParameters when instantiating the typesense-instantsearch-adapter.

Jan

01:17 PM

ok thanks!

01:17

Jan

01:17 PM

And this is available from 0.26.0.RC version?

Jason

01:18 PM

Yeah, 0.26.0.rc22 is the latest RC as of today, but it has a known performance regression when using group_by. We're working on addressing that

Jan

01:19 PM

Thanks. We are currently using v0.25.2.rc1 it’s not added to that version I guess?

Jason

01:21 PM

Correct, it's only available in 0.26.0.rc

Jan

01:23 PM

🙏

01:23

Jan

01:23 PM

thanks

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