[Question]: Query sorting about searchkit HOT 2 CLOSED

As you mentioned, you need to setup sorting in the configuration.

See example: https://www.searchkit.co/docs/components/sort-by#searchkit-setup

in the example you gave, it should be:

search_settings: {
  // ...
  sorting: {
    default: {
      field: '_score',
      order: 'desc'
    },
    _price_desc: {
      field: 'price',
      order: 'desc'
    },
    _price_asc: {
      field: 'price',
      order: 'asc'
    }
  }
}

this means it will continue to use the same index but will sort based on the field specified. the component will specify "regular_index_price_desc", the "_price_desc" will match the indexName and search on "regular_index" + sorting config of `_price_desc".

you shouldn't need to create an alias or clone for the sorting index. It should just work off the one index.

Query sorting is the only way you want to do but would say sorting other than score is not a good idea. You can use boosting to adjust relevance of certain documents too which might give a better experience.

Hope that makes sense!

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Thanks for the response @joemcelroy !
I've setup a new client, did everything very similar, and now it works as expected ✅.
Not sure why I encountered problems with requests going to another index the first time I tried this.

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