You might just be missing <entity ... transformer="TemplateTransformer" /> .
See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler#TemplateTransformer James Dyer E-Commerce Systems Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -----Original Message----- From: Kiran Jayakumar [mailto:kiranjuni...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:54 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Static template column in DIH Hi everyone, I have defined a template column like this: <entity name="books" query="select * from books"> <field name="Category" column="Category" template="Books"/> </entity> I dont have a field called Category in my query, but defined in schema.xml. I'm expecting it to populate the Category field with a fixed value "Books". It doesnt work. What am I missing ? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks