Read-only. Indicates whether the documents in a collection are sorted. A collection is sorted only when it results from a full-text search.

Defined in

DocumentCollection

Data type

boolean

Syntax

public boolean isSorted()
   throws NotesException

Legal values

• true if the collection is sorted
• false if the collection is not sorted

When a collection is sorted, the documents are sorted by relevance score with the most relevant document appearing first. A relevance score is a number assigned to each document that matches a particular full-text search query. The number is related to the number of matches that were found in the document.

Language cross-reference

IsSorted property in LotusScript NotesDocumentCollection class

Example
See Also

Collecting all documents and all unprocessed documents
Collecting documents by searching in Java classes

Glossary