Checking and Updating the Index Status of a Content Item or Place

Overview

Content search indexes documents, discussions, blogs, status updates, and external content. You do not have to rebuild the whole index to update the status for a single content item or place. This article provides the procedures for:

• Checking the index status of a content item or place.
• Updating the index status of a content item or place.

Information

In addition to content written and published with the community text editor, the search feature also searches files of these types:

• .html
• .rtf
• .txt
• .pdf
• .ppt
• .pptx
• .doc
• .docx
• .xls
• .xlsx
• .odt
• .ods
• .odp

The application also searches the contents of archives (of the .zip format).

Process

Checking the Status

To check the index status of a content item or place:

1. Navigate to Admin Console > System > Settings > Search.
2. Under Rebuild content index, in the Content URL field, specify the URL of the content item or place you want to check.
3. Click Retrieve Modification Date.

Updating the Status

To update an item in the index, for example, when the modification date is very old, click Update in Index button in the dialog box showing the modification date.

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