I don't believe the order in file matters for anything apart from initParams section. The longer - more specific one - matches first.
Regards, Alex. ---- Solr Analyzers, Tokenizers, Filters, URPs and even a newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ On 6 March 2015 at 11:21, Tom Devel <deve...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am running solr 5 using basic_configs and have a questions about the > order of defining fields and dynamic fields in the schema.xml file? > > For example, there is a field "hierarchy.of.fields.Project" I am capturing > as below as "text_en_splitting", but the rest of the fields in this > hierarchy, I would like as "text_en" > > Since the dynamicField with * is technically spanning over the Project > field, should its definition go above, or below the Project field? > > <field name="hierarchy.of.fields.Project" type="text_en_splitting" > indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" required="false" /> > <dynamicField name="hierarchy.of.fields.*" type="text_en" > indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" required="false" /> > > > Or this case, I have a hierarchy where currently only one field should be > captured "another.hierarchy.of.fields.Description", the rest for now should > be just ignored. Is here any significance of which definition comes first? > > <dynamicField name="another.hierarchy.of.*" type="text_en" > indexed="false" stored="false" multiValued="true" required="false" /> > <dynamicField name="another.hierarchy.of.fields.Description" > type="text_en" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" > required="false" /> > > Thanks for any hints, > Tom