Is it possible to have a field in the "query_by" parameter as well as the "exclude_fields" parameter? I have very large documents, but I don't want to return the entire text of the document, only the snippet.

Yes, that's allowed.

Hmm I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here is what I'm trying to pass in for my parameter.

q: this.search,

query_by: "text",

highlight_affix_num_tokens: 20,

exclude_fields: 'text'

The response returns highlights as empty. Am I missing something?

*highlights*: []

By default excluded fields are also excluded from highlights. You can send an explicit list of fields to be highlighted via

highlight_fields

param.

Thank you! That fixed it!