This may help ? Assume you have a publishedDate field for sorting. Update it as required.

ISearchResults has total count. (TotalItemCount)

public static ISearchResults GetNodes(string nodeAlias, int parentId = 0)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(nodeAlias))
        {
            return null;
        }

        if (ExamineManager.Instance.TryGetIndex("ExternalIndex", out var index))
        {
            var searcher = index.GetSearcher();

            if (parentId == 0)
            {
                return searcher.CreateQuery().NodeTypeAlias(nodeAlias)
                    .OrderByDescending(new SortableField("publishedDate", SortType.Long)).Execute();
            }

            return searcher.CreateQuery().ParentId(parentId).And().NodeTypeAlias(nodeAlias)
                .OrderByDescending(new SortableField("publishedDate", SortType.Long)).Execute();
        }

        return null;
    }

Hi S Rupa

as i see your code is for sorting by date my case is that i have a huge number of nodes and i don't want examine to return them all at once i want to be able to chose that i want to return 4 results for example and identify witch 4 like first 4 result or second 4 result and so on.

here is my code

     if (ExamineManager.Instance.TryGetIndex("InternalIndex", out var index))
            {
                var mainSettings = Umbraco.Content(2564);
                var searcher = index.GetSearcher();
                ISearchResults ExamineResults = null;
                var query = searcher.CreateQuery("content");
                IBooleanOperation queryOperations = query.Field("__NodeTypeAlias", "newsItem");
                if (CategoryPath != "")
                {
                    //CategoryPath = Umbraco.Content(2626).Path;
                    queryOperations = queryOperations.And().Field("path", CategoryPath.MultipleCharacterWildcard());
                }
                if (Keyword != "")
                {
                    queryOperations = queryOperations.And().Field("newsTitle", Keyword);
                }
                if (Year != "")
                {
                    int mon = Month.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() ? 1 : Convert.ToInt32(Month);
                    queryOperations= queryOperations.And().RangeQuery<DateTime>("publish_time".Split(','),new DateTime(Convert.ToInt32(Year), mon, 1),new DateTime(Convert.ToInt32(Year), mon, 31));
                }
                ExamineResults=queryOperations.OrderByDescending(new SortableField[] { new SortableField("publish_time") }).Execute();
}

this search should return more than 500 node so i will waste the time if i make query get all of the node to display just 4 nodes every time any advice ?

Hi,

The execute method takes a maxResults parameter which specifies the number of results to return. The default value is 500.

Execute(int maxResults = 500)

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