5. Field attributes The contents of a stored Field are saved in the index. This is useful for retrieving and highlighting the contents for display but is not necessary for the actual search. For example, many applications store pointers to the location of contents rather than the actual contents of a file. stored Indexed Fields are searchable and sortable. You also can run Solr's analysis process on indexed Fields, which can alter the content to improve or change results. The following section provides more information about Solr's analysis process. indexed Description Attribute name