Create a Child Field in Advanced Mode

Create a child field with the Couchbase Capella UI’s Advanced Mode to add or remove a specific field’s content from a Search index.

Prerequisites

You have the Search Service enabled on a node in your database. For more information about how to change Services on your database, see Modify a Database.
You have created an index. For more information, see Create a Basic Search Index in Advanced Mode.
You have created a type mapping. For more information about how to create a type mapping on an index, see Create a Type Mapping in Advanced Mode.
You have logged in to the Couchbase Capella UI.
You have started to create or already created an index in Advanced Mode.

To add or remove a child field from a Search index with the Capella UI:

On the Databases page, select the database that has the Search index you want to edit.
Go to Data Tools Search.
Click the index where you want to create a child field.
Under Type Mappings, next to an existing type mapping, go to More Options (⋮) Insert Child Field.
In the Field field, enter the name of a field in your documents that you want to add or remove from the index.

The field must contain either a single value or an array. If the field contains a JSON object, Create a Child Mapping, instead.
In the Type list, select the data type for the field:

For more information about the available data types, see Field Data Types.
Configure optional settings for the child field.

For more information about the available settings for child fields, see Child Field Options.
Click Submit.
Click Update Index.

You can continue to create child fields to add or remove the contents of a document from your Search index.

If a field in your documents contains a JSON object, Create a Child Mapping in Advanced Mode, instead.

To continue customizing your Search index, you can also:

To run a search and test the contents of your Search index, see Run A Simple Search with the Capella UI.