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I'm trying to understand how results are ordered when using a SXA Search results component without using a Default sort order option or a Sort result component. I need this for a site search, where many different items are listed and I can't use one standard ordering - at least I think I can't.

Let's say I get 3 results with the search word Test. If I go to Solr UI and search the sitecore_sxa_web_index under Query where q is sxacontent_txm:'Test' I get the same results with the same ordering as search results on site search. If I change some content on those 3 result pages they sometimes change order and sometimes not. But when they change order on the site search they also change order in my Solr UI query. Therefore I assume that this is the query SXA search uses.

But I just can't figure out how this order is materializing. The __boost field has 0.0 for all 3 pages. The Test word has the same number of occurrences in all pages. Time of creation or update of the item is out of order as well. As far as I can tell, we don't have any active boosting rules. At least I couldn't find any under the used scope and the path /sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Indexing and Search.

So I assume the ordering is coming from indexing. Has anyone some helpful information?

Thanks

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  • Did you check the score field in Solr admin? You can add it to 'fl' and see what are the values. I think by default if no sorting is specified it sorts by score.
    – Yassine Alahyane
    Commented Jan 25 at 12:31
  • @YassineAlahyane Interesting. I didn't know about that. So if I add score to fl I can see the scores. Turns out two of the values are equal and the other is bit higher. How can I determine the score value?
    – z00mable
    Commented Jan 25 at 14:14
  • Nevermind. I found it. Just checked debugQuery in Solr Admin UI
    – z00mable
    Commented Jan 25 at 14:17
  • Solr Relevance Score is determined based on multiple factors. Here's a link explaining some of them. In simple terms Solr determines the most relevant results based on your search keywords amongst other things : help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SUCCESSFACTORS_RECRUITING/…
    – Yassine Alahyane
    Commented Jan 25 at 18:07

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