Use the field type Ahmet recommended. It'll look almost exactly like String with the exception it'll be case insensitive. Take a look at the admin/analysis page with this field type and you'll understand why we're recommending this.
Best, Erick On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:33 PM, manju16832003 <manju16832...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Iori, > > Thank you replying, really appreciate that. > > My concern not to use *TextField* and I want to make use of *string* field. > > Reason is that I have 7 fields that I want to apply case-insensitiveness > and > all these fields are *facetable* fields. It would not be feasible if I > change data type from String to TextField just to apply > case-insensitiveness. However Solr document suggests that if we were to > make > fields facetable, its better to use String. > > Is there any way of achieving this using String itself?. > > Thank you, > Manju > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Difference-between-textfield-and-strfield-tp3986916p4105238.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
