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
- Go to your site settings page of the site.
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- Go to search - search and offline availability.
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- Now, click on button Reindex site and follow the pop-up Window.
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- Now, you can search items in your site and validate search result outcome.
B. Steps to re-index the library
- Login to your SharePoint site and to the particular SharePoint list or document library.
- Click on Library or List breadcrumb on top left corner
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- Select Library settings or List Settings.
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- Click Advanced Setting
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- This step is only for Document Library
Click on Reindex Document Library to re-index the contents in this document library.
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- This step is required only for List
Click on Reindex List to re-index the contents in this List.
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- 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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