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Modifying a Collection Definition in Typesense

TLDR Ignacio needed help with modifying a collection definition. Jason shared a resource from Typesense that lists the steps.

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Jul 02, 2022 (18 months ago)

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Ignacio

04:25 PM

Hey, have a quick question. What would be the steps/process to change/modify a collection definition? Let's say that I already have some data on the collection and I want to add a new field

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Jason

04:28 PM

As of v0.23, you can add fields to the collection: https://typesense.org/docs/0.23.0/api/collections.html#update-or-alter-a-collection

Ignacio

04:29 PM

will try that thanks

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Ignacio

04:29 PM

I think I'm already running on 0.23

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Ignacio

04:29 PM

🙂

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Ignacio

04:29 PM

somehow I did not found that on the docs :shrug:

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