{"id":549,"date":"2012-04-27T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T07:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/?p=549"},"modified":"2012-04-27T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:53:01","slug":"sp2010-why-are-my-list-items-not-indexed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/2012\/04\/sp2010-why-are-my-list-items-not-indexed\/","title":{"rendered":"SP2010: Why are my list items not indexed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so we struggled with a little problem which could be a big problem if you don&#8217;t know where to look. Imagine you&#8217;ve got your site with a couple of lists, but list items aren&#8217;t indexed by the search engine. What to do? This post is meant as a quick guide on stuff you should check.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First of all, make sure you can search. That&#8217;s\u00a0kind of a different topic which involves checking if your search services are running, your service application is setup properly and there&#8217;s a content source which points to your site. For instructions on how to setup search; read the f* manual.Ok, so from this point on, I&#8217;ll assume search is working and you&#8217;re able to find other stuff on your site. But the stuff you want to find, you cannot.<\/li>\n<li>At web level, there&#8217;s an exclusion setting. Check Site Settings =&gt; Site Administration =&gt; Search and offline\u00a0availability. You can exclude an entire site,\u00a0and manage whether lists with fine-grained permissions are indexed or not.<\/li>\n<li>You can configure these things with powershell too if you want to. I&#8217;m saying this because there seems to be one more setting (the first one)\u00a0which isn&#8217;t shown in the GUI:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>SPWeb.AllowAutomaticASPXPageIndexing<\/li>\n<li>SPWeb.ASPXPageIndexMode<\/li>\n<li>SPWeb.NoCrawl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>At list level, you can also exclude a list from appearing in search results. Check that in your list settings.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s exclusion in the search service itself. Someone might have set up a rule which excludes your items. Perhaps not that likely, but still worth checking.<\/li>\n<li>And then for the one that caught me: <strong>hidden lists aren&#8217;t indexed!<\/strong>If you hide a list (SPList.Hidden), the search indexer won&#8217;t crawl it. That kind of makes sence. It would be kind of pointless to hide a list if people would then still be able to find it in search, right?I did read some articles mentioning that your list will still be indexed when it&#8217;s already in the search index (so it&#8217;s visible and indexed, and then you change it to be hidden). But I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s true, or why you would use that (resetting the index will mean it&#8217;s then omitted from search).<\/li>\n<li>And finally, make sure your search crawl account can actually access the list. But when you&#8217;ve got access rules setup on web application level, even fine-grained permissions won&#8217;t mess with that, so it&#8217;s not that likely your crawl account won&#8217;t have access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s them. Should I remember some more, I&#8217;ll add them. Or feel free to post more options in the comments and I&#8217;ll include them in the post. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so we struggled with a little problem which could be a big problem if you don&#8217;t know where to look. Imagine you&#8217;ve got your site with a couple of lists, but list items aren&#8217;t indexed by the search engine. What to do? 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