title: SharePoint managed properties issue when search on separate farm to site collection
body: <p>We’re having problems with managed properties in a new SharePoint 2013 web application.  The managed properties are being used to display metadata and for sorting, however the metadata isn't being displayed and we’re getting the following error whenever we try to sort </p>
  
  <pre><code>Property doesn't exist or is used in a manner inconsistent with schema settings.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have seen this error before when the managed property in question weren’t defined, or set to sortable/refinable.  However, I can clearly see that this is not the case from the search schema and there are not errors in the Crawl Log.</p>
  
  <p>After digging into the logs, all I can find is</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception occured in scope Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query.SearchExecutor.ExecuteQueries. Exception=SortList
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The application is being deployed into an integrated development environment, on a shared app farm.  Also, we are using a separate farm for Search so the managed properties are created there.  The application/managed properties worked as expected on a developers slice, however search was located on the same farm as the application.</p>
  
  <p>We have tried recreating the content source, numerous full crawls, verified the managed properties are set correctly but still getting the same problem.</p>
  
  <p>Has anybody any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.  </p>