Yes, all the three options (copy fields, using dynamic fields and the SortableTextField) are feasible. Since I am on the 7.5.0 version of Solr, I will go ahead with the SortableTextField option.
Thank you team!! On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:46 PM Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you are on the latest Solr (7.3+), try switching from TextField to > SortableTextField in your string_ci definition above. > > That type implicitly uses docValues and should return original text > for faceting purposes, while still allowing analyzers. > > Regards, > Alex. > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 08:26, Ritesh Kumar > <ritesh.ku...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > > > > Hello team, > > > > I am trying to prepare facet on a field of type string. The facet data > will > > be shown according to the user's query on this very field. > > > > <field name="fieldName" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" > > required="false" multiValued="false"/> > > > > > > As this field is of type string, it works fine with case sensitive > query. I > > want to be able to query on this field irrespective of the case. > > > > I tried changing the field type to string_ci as defined below > > > > <fieldType name="string_ci" class="solr.TextField" sortMissingLast="true" > > omitNorms="true"> > > <analyzer type="query"> > > <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/> > > <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> > > </analyzer> > > </fieldType> > > > > <field name="fieldName" type="string_ci" indexed="true" stored="true" > > required="false" multiValued="false"/> > > > > Now, in this case, I am able to perform a case-insensitive query but the > > facet values are being shown in lowercase. > > > > I want to be able to perform a case-insensitive query on this field but > > show the original data. > > Is there anything I can do achieve this. > > > > Best, > > > > -- > > Ritesh Kumar >
