How to recreate the Search index

Problem Description

The Search index needs to be (re)created from scratch after a new installation or a systems failure.

Solution with Websphere Commandline Interface

Search the IBM Connections documentation for the steps to solve your problem.

  1. Start the wsadmin commandline interface as administrator. ATTENTION: All commands for the commandline interface are case sensitive!
  2. Activate the relevant Jython script.
  3. Perform the relevant Jython commands.

Solution with Connections Administration Toolkit (CAT)

Navigate to Administration – Search, subsection Manage. With the button “Purge Index” simply delete the current Search index.

Then use “Run Task” to immediately perform an indexing task:

After editing the parameters, a confirmation popup summarizes the changes and allows you to enter a comment. All changes, comments, and who made them, are logged by the CAT application.