Hi, You can request the value of the that field via fl=*,field(adjlocality)
See more about it : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Working+with+External+Files+and+Processes Actually you can search it too with frange query parser. {!frange l=0 u=0}field(adjlocality) On Monday, December 16, 2013 5:05 PM, Mukundaraman valakumaresan <muk...@8kmiles.com> wrote: Hi Is there a way to find ,whether the External File Fields mentioned in the schema.xml is being used or whether Solr reads the value of those external fields. I am not sure how to use an External field, can I request the value of an External File Field in the field list or can I use in my custom function as shown below: http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?wt=json&omitHeader=on&indent=true&defType=edismax&fl=id,adjlocality<http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?wt=json&omitHeader=on&indent=true&defType=edismax&fl=id,property_price_max,property_price_min,lanorm(%22%22,luxury_amenities_c,10),adjlocality> ,custfunc(adjlocality). I didn't get any output for the external fields in the queries that I provide. Thanks & Regards Mukund