Hi all, I’m trying to change the

default_sorting_field

of an existing collection to

"id"

. The reason is: I want to enable sorting on my custom field

sku

, but as far as I understand, I need to drop and re-add the field to set

sort: true

. Since I have a production website with hundreds of thousands of documents, reindexing would take a lot of time and isn't ideal. As a workaround, I was wondering if I can set the

default_sorting_field

to

"id"

instead. Is there a way to update this without recreating the entire collection? Any suggestions or best practices would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

You cannot set the

id

field as a sortable field. You'll have to create an Alias, point the alias to the original collection, create a new one, index the documents there, update the Alias to point to the new collection, and drop the old one

Thanks a lot for the response. It's a great solution.