Questions tagged [indexing]
Questions about indexes in Sitecore (standard or custom) in general. For questions that apply to Lucene or Solr, use the appropriate tags.
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What is the difference between Indexing via an ISearchIndex object and using IndexCustodian?
The best I could find in documentation was this:
Rebuild search indexes
... but that doesn't really help me. I'm trying to do this programatically an would like best practices for doing this sort of ...
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An index with the name "sitecore_web_index" have already been added
I'm trying to setup custom Lucene indexing but getting An index with the name "sitecore_web_index" have already been added.. Here's my config files. Have I missed something out?
CustomSpatialIndex....
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Index are not updating after db restore
I restored databases from production to Test environment. After that index's are not working with OnPublishEnd strategy. Could you please help me.
I have truncated History,EventQueue and ...
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Using alternate ContentSearch analyzers
I am looking into using some of the alternate analyzers provided in the Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider.Analyzers namespace.
Specifically what I would like to achieve is to:
Create copies of ...
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"$name" showing up in website content
We have a website that uses a lot of search indexes, and today some of the dropdowns are displaying "$name" as the first item in the dropdown list. I've done some googling and some say it is due to ...
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What is the correct root node for 'sitecore_marketingdefinitions_master' index?
I am working on a task to move a Sitecore installation search from Lucene to Solr on Sitecore version 8.2. I am using Solr version 5.1 as it is the recommended version for sitecore 8.2. All the other ...
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Appending index fields in Lucene
Does anyone know if it is possible to append a Lucene computed index field's value? Say that there is a computed index field that stores a list of ids based on some generic logic. Then there is an ...
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Lucene search in load balance environment is not showing proper results
I'm using Lucene for Search in Load balanced environment. Indexes are working fine, but sometimes index is updating in only one of the servers. If we rebuild the index manually then its showing proper ...
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Custom Lucene Index Field with Children
I want to create a custom field to be indexed in Lucene that has the children of the item being indexed. Is there an easy way to do this that I am overlooking?
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Master index updated even though manual strategy is set
I have changed update strategy for Master database to be "manual" rather than "sync", which to my understanding should not update "master" when data changes in master database. I can see in crawling ...
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Issue with multiple crawlers on Solr custom search index
I have custom search Index(SOLR) which has two root locations defined, one points to /home node and another points to repository(videos), we also have indexing strategy(onPublishEndAsync) in place.
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How do I rebuild the Quick Search Index in Sitecore 8.2?
I've upgraded my solution from sitecore 8.1 Update 1 to Sitecore 8.2 initial release. After finishing the upgrade, and configuration changes, I opened the launchpad to rebuild Quick Search Index, I ...
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Performance Issue With Facets
We are having some performance issue when setting Datasources and Linking items in Sitecore 8.2. The test server just hangs when trying to expand a node in the dialog box. The CPU spikes to 100% and ...
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Remote CD Indexing Not Working
Republish All Items (Completed with no errors)
Rebuild Indexes Using Control Panel (Completed with no errors)
Inspect Data/indexes directory. (Date modified is from over a month ago)
Verified correct ...
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Lucene analytics index constantly loads HDD
We see performance issue on CM server. Content editor is very slow periodically and resource monitor shows that HDD is busy - reading and writing sitecore_analytics_index files nearly 50% of the time. ...
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Representing relational data in Lucene/Solr index for Segmented lists
Scenario: In Sitecore Experience platform (8.1+) we have a xProfile/Contact, with zero-to-many Sitecore Certifications relation, as an example
The contact Arthur Dent has over the years has earned ...
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Can Azure Search be combined with on premises Sitecore hosting?
We are preparing a Sitecore upgrade and looking into Azure Search for indexing.
Can anyone tell me if Azure Search can be comined with on premises hosting? Or do you need to host Sitecore in Azure to ...
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Lucene indexing item url
I'm struggling to get the Sitecore item url from indexing, the SearchResultItem.url is always null.
I tried creating a ComputedField but I'm not getting the correct url.
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Sitecore.Links....
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How to delete a Contact programmatically in xDB
Does anyone know how delete/remove a xDB Contact programmatically in Sitecore (8.1+), which also ensures a correct (re)-indexing?
Or, is there another strategy? Such as scrambling the identifier? - ...
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Indexing jobs queued
On the CM server, all jobs are getting queued, after the following jobs appear in a running state:
UpdateIndex_filesystem Indexing Running False 08.11.2016 15:43:19 ...
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How to switch Lucene to Solr
We are planning on changing from Lucene to Solr due to number of items and because we have more than one CM server.
What are the steps needed to migrate default lucene indexes to Solr? Is it just a ...
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If I unpublish an item will Sitecore update the search index?
I have a Sitecore 8.1 / Solr 4.10 instance. I know that if I add a new content item or I delete a content item and then publish, that Sitecore is smart enough to do a partial rebuild of the Solr ...
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What are the consequences of disabling the analytics index?
If I were to delete the data from the analytics index, and then disable the observables declared in the in the crawlers defined here,
Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene.Index.Analytics.config
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How can I reduce the size of the analytics index? [alt: Populating the Analytics Index]
I'm working with a customer right now that has seen their Solr implementation become unstable lately. Based on some initial analysis, signs are pointing towards the analytics index. They've been live ...
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Helix and Computed Index Fields with DI
In my solution, I have some Computed Index Fields that I need to add that combine the values of fields from templates that belong to multiple Project-layer modules. I am using DI for initializing my ...
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Configuring master and web index for faster rebuild
During an upgrade from 6.x to 8.1 we decided to also move the indexes from Lucene to Solr. We ran into quite some troubles, but that is not the question as those are fixed. The "problem" I'm still ...
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"Silently" Create Item - Create Item Without Triggering Indexing or other Events
I know that when I edit items, I can pass true to the EndEdit method to save the item without triggering events/indexing on save. Since I almost always want to edit an item after creating it, it seems ...
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Why would SearchResultItem.Paths be null?
I am using Sitecore 8.1 with Solr 4.10 doing a general site search. I have a repeater on my search results page and I am binding the results to that repeater. For some reason in my QA environment I ...
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How to rebuild the analytics index without rebuilding the entire reporting database?
In Sitecore 8.1.3, is it possible to rebuild the analytics index without rebuilding the entire reporting database as specified in doc.sitecore.net?
I have an analytics index that is more or less ...
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Issue with CD index not being updated after updating CM for Sitecore 8.1
I have the following setup
1 CM server
1 CD server
Sitecore 8.1
We have a custom Lucene index that is updating with no problem on our CM server but not on our CD server. I checked the logs and ...
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What is the impact to a Sitecore instance while rebuilding the links database?
I am referring specifically the Links database, stored in the "Links" table, as defined here:
<!-- LINK DATABASE -->
<LinkDatabase type="Sitecore.Data.$(database).$(database)LinkDatabase,
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Performance issue when inserting item to Lucene index
I have a Sitecore 8 instance with a bucket with aprox. 150K items, and like 200K total.
Publishing is working very slow. I mean, really slow, sometimes 5 items per second. I've stripped all code we ...
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Coveo index does not update Item
I am facing an issue with Coveo search. In website's search results page, when I click a search result, it is throwing me a 404 error. In CES indexcontent, if I search same item and click on the Uri, ...
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How does indexUpdateStrategy "syncMaster" behave on Solr with defined root?
We've got a client with a Solr index, the index is updating fine but the frequency of updates seems a little high - I wondered (before digging in to this myself) if anyone knew exactly how the ...
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How can I customize the dependencies of items when indexing?
When an item gets indexed, Sitecore also updates certain "dependent" items in the index. I would like to change this set of items, or at least add some to the list. I want to get the items in the list ...
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What is the difference between an index and a search index
What is the difference between a regular index (e.g. sitecore_master_index) and a "search index"?
Why do I see certain indexes under the Indexing Manager in Control Panel, yet different ones under ...
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Should indexes folder in data folder be removed every now and then?
We had some issue with Lucene not indexing properly. Usually with the removal of the indexes folder within data folder and rebuilding the indexes through Control Panel's Indexing Manager helps; ...
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Fields Not Being Indexed in Lucene
I'm working with Sitecore 8.1. I have <indexAllFields>true</indexAllFields> in the <documentOptions> node of the DefaultIndexConfiguration.config file. When I open the index up in ...
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How do I define a custom computed and tokenized field in my index?
I'm currently working in Sitecore 8.1. I would like to add a custom computed field to a specific index, and only that index. I have been able to add the field globally to Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene....
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Sitecore index update jobs getting stuck
I'm having trouble configuring a Sitecore 7.2 production environment and noticed some weird things on the CM environment..
After a few updates to the sitecore_master_index the jobs to update the ...
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How does Sitecore update a search index if there are no index update strategies configured?
The Sitecore docs list the available index update strategies, but there is no mention of what happens if no strategies are configured.
For example, would the index on the CD server for the following ...
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Lucene index corruption
I've had a serious problem with several clients while utilising a Lucene search index where anomalies like content missing that should be there or duplicate content (more than one document of the same ...
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Field values are being fetched as null while reading the data with SolrContentSearchManager with Solr custom FlatDataCrawler
I'm busy creating a Crawler using FlatDataCrawler for custom non-sitecore data.
Inserting the data into Solr works, but when i'm reading the data with SolrContentSearchManager my entities are inserted ...
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