I add a new FieldType in my Solr 8. I'd like to change the fulltext/string fields to that new FieldType. I don't know how to do it.
On an search_api index fields config page (i.e. /admin/config/search/search-api/index/solr/fields ), we can change field type as the screenshot below:
And in the search_api_solr module generated config files, I found nowhere to change the type property. For example, there are all dynamicFields with generated names, i.e.:
<dynamicField name="tcedgestrings_X3b_und_*" type="text_edgenstring" stored="true" indexed="true" multiValued="false" termVectors="true" omitNorms="false" />
<dynamicField name="tcedgestrings_*" type="text_edgenstring" stored="true" indexed="true" multiValued="false" termVectors="true" omitNorms="false" />
<dynamicField name="tcedgestringm_X3b_und_*" type="text_edgenstring" stored="true" indexed="true" multiValued="true" termVectors="true" omitNorms="false" />
<dynamicField name="tcedgestringm_*" type="text_edgenstring" stored="true" indexed="true" multiValued="true" termVectors="true" omitNorms="false" />
<dynamicField name="tocedgestrings_X3b_und_*" type="text_edgenstring" stored="true" indexed="true" multiValued="false" termVectors="true" omitNorms="true" />
...Closed: works as designed
4.3
Documentation
If the new field type is created according to the API, it will occur in the select box. And it will automatically occur in the generated configs.