Update index with static value instead of scripted field

[stevezemlicka (Stephen Zemlicka)]

I might not have done enough research on this before posting...perhaps the answer is in something like:

Reindex data with a new Field

Hi, Is there anyway to reindex the data and create a new field, from the data in the documents. For example, reindex an entire index and create a new field Hour(number) from a date type field(YYYY-mm-dd, HH-mm-ss). I Know that Lucene has an expresion for this(doc['@timestamp'].date.getHourOfDay()), but can this be used to create a new field when you reindex? I need this new field for a search query and the scripted fields can't be used for this, the alternative is using a script on the query …