Hello Naveen, There is not against using custom types, actually to provide a good search experience you will need to create your own custom types.
You can use the Classic schema.xml in Solr 6 read the following https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Schema+Factory+Definition+in+SolrConfig And make sure to put schemaFactory class="ClassicIndexSchemaFactory" in your solrconfig.xml -- Best regards, Kais On 2 August 2016 at 14:16, Naveen Pajjuri <pajjuri.re...@myntra.com> wrote: > Hi, > Im trying to move from 4.10.4 to 6.1.0. > I want to define and use custom field types. but i read that its not > advisable to modify managed-schema file. how do i create custom field types > ?? > > Thanks in advance, > Naveen Reddy -- Best regards, Kais Hassan