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Changing Facet Value of Indexed Collections

TLDR Roshan wanted to alter the facet value of fields after indexing. Kishore Nallan explained the current limitation, suggested pre-creation of collection before syncing. Faceted search is also encountered an unknown issue, Kishore Nallan advised to raise the issue in Github.

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Roshan

10:05 AM

Hi everyone, how can i change facet value once the collections are indexed? when i run the command provided in readme, it creates schema with facet value false for every fields, i wan to change it to true for some fields?

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Kishore Nallan

10:05 AM

👋 Hi Roshan. I don't follow you. Do you mean adding a new field as a facet?

Roshan

10:06 AM

Kishore Nallan I mean i need to change facet value from false to true to some fields

Kishore Nallan

10:06 AM

Got it, as of now, we don't have a way to alter the schema. You have to recreate the collection and index it. But this feature is prioritized so planning to have it soon.

Roshan

10:07 AM

I'm currently using typesense-mongodb cli tool for creating schema and indexing

10:08

Roshan

10:08 AM

How can i enable faceting for some fields

10:08

Roshan

10:08 AM

using cli tool

Kishore Nallan

10:08 AM

You can pre-create the collection before running that tool for syncing.

Roshan

10:08 AM

npx typesense-mongodb \
   --mongo-collection=test \
   --mongo-database=test \
   --typesense-collection=typesense-collection \
   --mongo-url=<mongodb://localhost:27021> \
   --typesense-url=http://localhost:8108 \
   --typesense-api-key=abc

10:09

Roshan

10:09 AM

I'm using this command

10:09

Roshan

10:09 AM

You can pre-create the collection before running that tool for syncing How can i do that ? can you share link for this? Kishore Nallan

Kishore Nallan

10:10 AM

Here: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/mongodb-full-text-search.html#step-4-create-a-typesense-collection

10:10

Kishore Nallan

10:10 AM

Just create the collection that way before you start the CLI tool (https://github.com/typesense/typesense-mongodb)

Roshan

10:37 AM

ok I created the collection now I want to connect that collection with mongodb data(collection) Kishore Nallan?

10:37

Roshan

10:37 AM

how can i do that?

Kishore Nallan

10:38 AM

Just pass the collection name via the --typesense-collection cli argument.

10:39

Kishore Nallan

10:39 AM

https://github.com/typesense/typesense-mongodb#arguments

Roshan

11:10 AM

If i create a collection and try to use in cli as arguments, it says collection already created.

Kishore Nallan

11:14 AM

Hmm, that should not be the case. Can you please create an issue on the Github repo with the details, we will take a look.

Roshan

11:21 AM

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