Hi Chris,
Chris Hostetter-3 wrote > ...ExternalFileField is "special" and as noted in it's docs it is not > searchable -- it doesn't actaully care what the indexed (or "stored") > properties are ... but the default values of those properties as assigend > by the schema defaults are still there in the metadata of the field -- > which is what the schema API/browser are showing you. As you mentioned above, that the `stored` parameter will also be ignored (i.e doesn't matter whether its marked as false or true). So when we retrieve the external fields using the `fl = field(exteranl_field_name)` solr will always retrieve the field value from the external file. Regards, Raj -- Sent from: https://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html