Deactivating Indexes

Use

You deactivate an index if you want the index to be temporarily unavailable to portal users.

Deactivating an index has the following consequences:

  • The system no longer searches this index when a search is started.

  • The index is no longer available in the search options.

  • Taxonomies that are assigned to this index are no longer visible in the /taxonomies repository.

  • Documents from assigned data sources are no longer indexed. New documents and changes to documents are not reflected in the index.

Procedure

To deactivate an index:

  1. Select it in the index list in the Index Administration iView

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  2. Choose Deactivate .