In the data driven configset, autoguessing text fields as the “strings" field type is intended to enable faceting. The catch-all _text_ field enables search on all fields, but this may not be a good alternative to fielded search.
I’m going to start working on updating the quick start tutorial - nobody has updated it since 5.0 AFAICT. -- Steve www.lucidworks.com > On Sep 16, 2016, at 8:34 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > > : I apologize if this is a really stupid question. I followed all > > It's not a stupid question, the tutorial is completley broken -- and for > that matter, in my opinion, the data_driven_schema_configs used by that > tutorial (and recommended for new users) are largely useless for the same > underlying reason... > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9526 > > Thank you very much for asking about this - hopefully the folks who > understand this more (and don't share my opinion that the entire concept > of data_driven schemas are a terrible idea) can chime in and explain WTF > is going on here) > > > -Hoss > http://www.lucidworks.com/
