Sitecore Solr Error: Processing Field Name. Resolving Multiple Field found on Solr Field Map. No matching template field on index field name, return type ‘String’ and field type ”

After an upgrade to Sitecore 9, our Sitecore search logs were filled with thousands of warnings, like the below:

WARN Processing Field Name : Overview Text. Resolving Multiple Field found on Solr Field Map. No matching template field on index field name 'overview_text', return type 'String' and field type ''

What’s the fix?

You need to add field mappings for each of the fields in your Solr index. In our case, we had no mapping for ‘overview_text’, so Sitecore / Solr didn’t know how to treat the field. Add a config patch and specify a returnType for the fields you see as warnings in the log:


<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/" xmlns:role="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/role/" xmlns:search="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/search/">
  <sitecore>
    <contentSearch>
      <indexConfigurations>
        <defaultSolrIndexConfiguration>
          <fieldMap>
            <fieldNames hint="raw:AddFieldByFieldName">
              <field fieldName="overview_text" returnType="text" />
            </fieldNames>
          </fieldMap>
        </defaultSolrIndexConfiguration>
      </indexConfigurations>
    </contentSearch>
  </sitecore>
</configuration>

** UPDATE 25/01/2018 **

While the above is suitable for adding a few fields, having hundreds or thousands of fields in your Solr index will lead to having to maintain lots of the above configuration entries. I raised a ticket with Sitecore, and was told “We registered this behavior as a bug with the reference #195567”. Sitecore’s suggested workaround is to add a log4Net filter which will stop the problematic entries from reaching the log. For example:


<!-- Filter out Solr log warnings-->
    <log4net>
      <appender name="SearchLogFileAppender">
        <filter type="log4net.Filter.StringMatchFilter">
          <regexToMatch  value="Resolving Multiple Field found on Solr Field Map. No matching solr search field configuration on index field name|Search field name in Solr with Template Resolver is returning no entry|Resolving Multiple Field found on Solr Field Map. No matching template field on index field name|Solr with Template Resolver is returning multiple entry|is being skipped. Reason: No Field Type Name" />
          <acceptOnMatch value="false" />
        </filter>
      </appender>
    </log4net>

Hopefully a proper fix or configuration guidance will be released at some point.

4 thoughts on “Sitecore Solr Error: Processing Field Name. Resolving Multiple Field found on Solr Field Map. No matching template field on index field name, return type ‘String’ and field type ””

Thanks for the post, I would like to ask you if there is any other solution than adding the fields one by one?

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Chris Perks

January 25, 2018 at 9:08 am

Hey Alexander! I contacted Sitecore about this and their response was to add a log4Net filter to hide the log entries (I updated my post). I’m still waiting for more information on what the eventual correct configuration changes will be, but this worked as a temporary workaround for now.

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Hmm. It would be good to know if there is a better fix than this; just filtering the log entries sounds like “just shove head in sand and hope it goes away”.

And yes, I’ve a hell of a lot of those entries….

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