Nabble mutilated my reply : *Comment*: If you remove this field, you must _also_ disable the update log in solrconfig.xml or Solr won't start. _version_ and update log are required for SolrCloud <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="true" stored="true"/> *Comment*:points to the root document of a block of nested documents. Required for nested document support, may be removed otherwise <field name="_root_" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
*Comment*:Only remove the "id" field if you have a very good reason to. While not strictly required, it is highly recommended. A <uniqueKey> is present in almost all Solr installations. See the <uniqueKey> declaration below where <uniqueKey> is set to "id". <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" multiValued="false" /> ----- --------------- Alessandro Benedetti Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director Sease Ltd. - www.sease.io -- Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html