Sort Alphabetically but Ignore Articles

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Hi all,

I have looked around online for a solution to this, but so far have not found anything.

I have a system running with Elasticsearch which uses an analyser to sort alphabetically, however when doing this, articles are treated as relevant, meaning for example, a record called "The Mona Lisa" will be sorted under "T".

Is there a way to ignore articles (such as "The", "A", "An") in record names for sorting, so that "The Mona Lisa" would be sorted under "M"?

Many thanks in advance.

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You can always have a multi field on which you can base your sorting. Details are here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_multi_fields.html

You can have your regular title field, then in its fields, you can add a without_stop_words and specify that it is analyzed by the stop word analyzer. Without fully understanding the details of your use case, something like that may work for you.

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Thanks for the advice.

I've looked into stop words and that looks just like what I need, I will try it out.

Thanks again!