How To Rebuild Search Indexes In Sitecore

How To Rebuild Search Indexes

There are situations where Sitecore search indexes need to be re-built, for example, after a full publish, when you have new or changed content to re-index, when indexes are out of date, or when indexes have been corrupted.

For a Content Author, there are different ways to rebuild indexes such as:

• Use the Sitecore Control Panel
• Use the Sitecore Content Editor

Control Panel

Step 1

Login to Sitecore account. Go to Launchpad and select Control Panel

Step 2

Under 'Indexing' select 'Indexing Manager'

Step 3

In the Indexing Manager dialogue box, select any search index e.g. sitecore_master_index and click Rebuild.

When the search index is rebuilt, repeat the steps above to rebuild another index e.g. sitecore_web_index.

Content Editor

To rebuild indexes from the Content Editor:

1. In the Content Editor, click the Developer tab. If you do not see the Developer tab, right-click in the menu bar and select Developer in the list of tabs. 
   
2. In the Indexing tools group, select one of the options to rebuild indexes:
   
• Rebuild index – opens a list of all indexes. This list contains information about when each index was last rebuilt. Select an index to rebuild it.
• Rebuild all – rebuilds all indexes.
• Re-Index Tree – process the selected item and all descendants recursively, and force an update operation on all indexes that are related to the selected content area. Only do this when absolutely necessary.

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