Remove an index for a specific field
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- UpdatedDec 12, 2024
- 1 minute read
- Xanadu
- Search Administration
You can remove the index for a specific field in a table if you no longer want the search engine to return results for that field.
Before you begin
Role required: admin
Procedure
Result
The system no longer indexes text from the specified table field or queries it for text search results. This change also disables text indexing and search for the specified field in all tables that extend the specified table.
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