I am using Solr (6.6.0) in the automatic mode (where it discovers fields). It's working fine with one exception. The problem is that Solr maps the discovered "meta_creation_date" is assigned the type TrieDateField.
Unfortunately, that type is limited in a number of ways (like sorting, abbreviated forms and etc.). What I'd like to do is have that ("meta_creation_date") field assigned to a different type, like DateRangeField. Is it possible to accomplish this (during indexing) by creating a copy field to a different type, and using the copy field in the query? Or via some kind of function operation (which I've never understood)?