How To Manually Request Crawling And Re-Indexing Of A Site, A Document Library, Or A List

Introduction

In this blog, we will learn how to manually request crawling and re-indexing of a site, a document library, or a list. These are the same steps, which are involved for On-Premise versions and SharePoint Online/ Office 365 sites.
Why do we need to manually request crawling and re-indexing of a site, a document library or a list?
Hence, many times we received a complaint from our users who are not able to search some particular content at a site, a document library, or a list level. These steps will help you to fix the issues quickly.

Step by step process detail

A. Steps to re-index the site

1. Go to your site settings page of the site.
   
   
   
   
2. Go to search - search and offline availability.
   
   
   
   
3. Now, click on button Reindex site and follow the pop-up Window.
   
   
   
4. Now, you can search items in your site and validate search result outcome.

B. Steps to re-index the library

1. Login to your SharePoint site and to the particular SharePoint list or document library.
   
2. Click on Library or List breadcrumb on top left corner
   
   
   
   
3. Select Library settings or List Settings.
   
   
   
   
4. Click Advanced Setting
   
   
   
   
5. This step is only for Document Library
   Click on Reindex Document Library to re-index the contents in this document library.
   
   
   
   
6. This step is required only for List
   Click on Reindex List to re-index the contents in this List.
   
   
   
7. Now, you can search an item in your List or Library and validate the search results outcome.

Summary

Thus, you have learned how to manually request crawling and re-indexing of a site, a document library or a list. Once again, these are the same steps involved for On-Premise versions and SharePoint Online /Office 365 sites.

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