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    Enable automatic stop words for a table

    The system can identify and generate stop words when a search term exceeds an occurrence threshold.

    Before you begin

    • Role required: admin
    • Enable text indexing for the table

    About this task

    By default, the TS Index Stats scheduled job identifies and creates stop words for tables with text indexes on a nightly basis. Automatically adding stop words improves your search results by removing search terms that return too many search results.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to System Definition > Text Indexes.
    2. Open the text index entry for the table.
    3. Select the Auto stop check box.
    4. In Auto threshold, enter the maximum number of occurrences a search term can have in search results.
      When a search term generates more search results than the threshold, the system automatically creates a stop word for the search term.
      For example, to create stop words for the task table, see the blog post Configuring auto stop words and regenerating text indexes from a ServiceNow employee on the ServiceNow Community.
    5. Click Update.

    Result

    The job identifies and creates stop words for the table with a Stop mode value of Index but do not Query and inserts a Comment to indicate that the stop word was generated automatically.
    Related tasks
    • Configure a global stop word
    • Configure a table-specific stop word

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      Enable automatic stop words for a table

      The system can identify and generate stop words when a search term exceeds an occurrence threshold.

      Before you begin

      • Role required: admin
      • Enable text indexing for the table

      About this task

      By default, the TS Index Stats scheduled job identifies and creates stop words for tables with text indexes on a nightly basis. Automatically adding stop words improves your search results by removing search terms that return too many search results.

      Procedure

      1. Navigate to System Definition > Text Indexes.
      2. Open the text index entry for the table.
      3. Select the Auto stop check box.
      4. In Auto threshold, enter the maximum number of occurrences a search term can have in search results.
        When a search term generates more search results than the threshold, the system automatically creates a stop word for the search term.
        For example, to create stop words for the task table, see the blog post Configuring auto stop words and regenerating text indexes from a ServiceNow employee on the ServiceNow Community.
      5. Click Update.

      Result

      The job identifies and creates stop words for the table with a Stop mode value of Index but do not Query and inserts a Comment to indicate that the stop word was generated automatically.
      Related tasks
      • Configure a global stop word
      • Configure a table-specific stop word

      Tags:

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