“Query is not understandable” - Full text searching where field types have changed

Question

A client have a long lived IBM Notes application where someone along the line changed the type of a field from number to text.

So, now when we\'re trying to do an FT sea

Answer 1

Links are useful, but if you don't want to remove data from documents - for me such steps worked (and there was no need in removing fields from forms in designer):

• Run from designer with manager access with such code inside

  Sub Initialize  
  Dim s As New NotesSession
  Dim db As NotesDatabase
  Dim dc As NotesDocumentCollection
  Dim doc As NotesDocument
  Dim i As Integer
  Dim nc As NotesNoteCollection
  Dim noteid As String
  Dim nextnoteid As string
  Dim itemArr As Variant
  Dim NeedSave As Boolean
  
  Const ITEM_NAME = "itemName1|itemName2"
  
  itemArr = Split( ITEM_NAME, "|" )
  'погромист-кун не должен забывать про наличие итемов в формах...
  Set db = s.Currentdatabase  
  Set nc = db.CreateNoteCollection(False) 
  nc.SelectForms = true
  Call nc.BuildCollection
  noteid = nc.Getfirstnoteid()
  For i =  1 To nc.Count
      Set doc = db.Getdocumentbyid( noteid )
      noteid = nc.Getnextnoteid( noteid )
      NeedSave = false
      ForAll IA In itemArr
          If doc.Hasitem( IA ) Then
              Call doc.Removeitem( IA )
              NeedSave = true
          End If
      End ForAll
      If NeedSave Then
          Call doc.Save( True, False )
      End If
      Print CStr( i ) & "\" & CStr( nc.Count )
  Next    
  
  End Sub
  

• Remove database index

• Run from administrator command lo compact database.nsf -c , like mentioned in links above
• Create index