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I have inherited a very old and messy instance of Sitecore 7. Ive decided to cleanup some of the config files and im starting with the indexes. There are a few custom indexes that i noticed don't show in the index manager popup. I presume because the below declaration uses Sitecore search and not Lucene. Does anyone know, if there is a way i can get them to appear?

 <configuration type="Sitecore.Search.SearchConfiguration, Sitecore.Kernel" singleinstance="true">
        <indexes hint="list:AddIndex">
         <index id="centresearch" type="Sitecore.Search.Index, Sitecore.Kernel">
           <param desc="name">$(id)</param>
           <param desc="folder">$(id)</param>
           <analyzer ref="search/analyzer" />
           <locations hint="list:AddCrawler">
            <web type="Global.Application.Search.CentreSearchCrawler, Global.Application">
                <Database>web</Database>
                <Tags>web content</Tags>
                <Root>/sitecore/content/Global/Centres</Root>
            </web>
           </locations>
         </index>
        </indexes>
     </configuration>
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    Sitecore.Search.Index type was used in Sitecore 6. You can try changing it to Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider.LuceneIndex and update all the require properties like configuration and strategies
    – Marek Musielak
    Feb 28 '18 at 15:51
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You configuration should look like this one : 

<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
  <sitecore>
   <contentSearch>
    <configuration type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentSearchConfiguration, Sitecore.ContentSearch">
    <indexes hint="list:AddIndex">
      <index id="centersearch" type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider.LuceneIndex, Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider">
        <param desc="name">$(id)</param>
        <param desc="folder">$(id)</param>
        <!-- This initializes index property store. Id has to be set to the index id -->
        <param desc="propertyStore" ref="contentSearch/databasePropertyStore" param1="$(id)" />
        <configuration ref="contentSearch/indexConfigurations/defaultLuceneIndexConfiguration" />
        <strategies hint="list:AddStrategy">
          <!-- NOTE: order of these is controls the execution order -->
          <strategy ref="contentSearch/indexUpdateStrategies/onPublishEndAsync" />
        </strategies>
        <commitPolicyExecutor type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.CommitPolicyExecutor, Sitecore.ContentSearch">
          <policies hint="list:AddCommitPolicy">
            <policy type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.ModificationCountCommitPolicy, Sitecore.ContentSearch">
              <Limit>300</Limit>
            </policy>
          </policies>
        </commitPolicyExecutor>
        <locations hint="list:AddCrawler">
          <crawler type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.SitecoreItemCrawler, Sitecore.ContentSearch">
            <Database>web</Database>
            <Root>/sitecore/content/Global/Centres</Root>
          </crawler>
        </locations>
      </index>
    </indexes>
  </configuration>
  </contentSearch>
</sitecore>
</configuration>

I remarked you have a custom crawler, you should modify 

    <crawler type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.SitecoreItemCrawler, Sitecore.ContentSearch">

with you custom crawler class

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  • Thanks but the problem is that i get an error when i add my custom crawler to the crawler node. I suspect its because the custom crawler class inreits from the wrong base class. It inherits from Sitecore.Search.Crawlers.DatabaseCrawler not SitecoreItemCrawler
    – Richard Banks
    Feb 28 '18 at 16:29
  • Can you add crawler code to the question?
    – Vlad Iobagiu
    Feb 28 '18 at 16:44

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