4.2. Field data processing configuration

Fields are named pieces of information in or about documents, like title, author, abstract.

The field values for documents can appear in several ways during indexing: either output by filters as meta fields in the HTML header section, or added as attributes of the Doc object when using the API, or again synthetized internally by Recoll.

The Recoll query language allows searching for text in a specific field.

Recoll defines a number of default fields. Additional ones can be output by filters, and described in the fields configuration file.

Fields can be:

A field can be either or both indexed and stored.

A field becomes indexed by having a prefix defined in the [prefixes] section of the fields file. See the comments in there for details

A field becomes stored by appearing in the [stored] section of the fields file.