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.TH SLAPO-VALSORT 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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.\" Copyright 2005-2009 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
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.\" Copying restrictions apply. See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
.\" $OpenLDAP$
.SH NAME
slapo-valsort \- Value Sorting overlay to slapd
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.SH SYNOPSIS
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
.SH DESCRIPTION
The Value Sorting overlay can be used with a backend database to sort the
values of specific multi-valued attributes within a subtree. The sorting
occurs whenever the attributes are returned in a search response.
.LP
Sorting can be specified in ascending or descending order, using either
numeric or alphanumeric sort methods. Additionally, a "weighted" sort can
be specified, which uses a numeric weight prepended to the attribute values.
The weighted sort is always performed in ascending order, but may be combined
with the other methods for values that all have equal weights. The weight
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is specified by prepending an integer weight {<\fIweight\fP>}
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in front of each value of the attribute for which weighted sorting is
desired. This weighting factor is stripped off and never returned in
search results.
.SH CONFIGURATION
These
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.I slapd.conf
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options apply to the Value Sorting overlay.
They should appear after the
.B overlay
directive.
.TP
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valsort-attr <\fIattribute\fP> <\fIbaseDN\fP> (<\fIsort-method\fP> | weighted [<\fIsort-method\fP>])
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Configure a sorting method for the specified
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.I attribute
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in the subtree rooted at
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.IR baseDN .
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The
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.I sort-method
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may be one of
.BR alpha-ascend ,
.BR alpha-descend ,
.BR numeric-ascend ,
or
.BR numeric-descend .
If the special
.B weighted
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method is specified, a secondary
.I sort-method
may also be specified. It is an
error to specify an alphanumeric
.I sort-method
for an attribute with Integer
or NumericString syntax, and it is an error to specify a numeric
.I sort-method
for an attribute with a syntax other than Integer or NumericString.
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.SH EXAMPLES
.LP
.nf
database bdb
suffix dc=example,dc=com
...
overlay valsort
valsort-attr member ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com alpha-ascend
.fi
.SH FILES
.TP
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\fIETCDIR/slapd.conf\fP
default \fBslapd\fP configuration file
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR slapd.conf (5).
.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
.P
This module was written in 2005 by Howard Chu of Symas Corporation. The
work was sponsored by Stanford University.