Sitecore How-To: How to Rebuild a Sitecore Index

• Overview
• How-To
• Step-by-step guide

Overview

This is an article in a series of Sitecore how-to articles. These articles are meant to be quick guides to accomplish various tasks within Sitecore. The how-to articles have proven to be very helpful internally at One North Interactive https://www.onenorth.com. These articles assume working Sitecore knowledge. I just wanted to share the articles with the community. Hopefully you find them helpful.

How-To

When you want to rebuild a Sitecore index.a

Step-by-step guide

1. Login to the back end of Sitecore. (i.e. http://mysitecoresite/sitecore)
2. Sitecore 6
   1. Log into Desktop from Sitecore admin login screen
   2. Go to Control Panel
   3. Click Database
   4. Click Rebuild the Search Index
   5. Check the indexes you want to rebuild
   6. Click Rebuild
3. Sitecore 7
   1. Log into Desktop from Sitecore admin login screen
   2. Go to Control Panel
   3. Click Indexing
   4. Click Indexing Manager
   5. Check the indexes you want to rebuild
   6. Click Rebuild
4. Sitecore 7.2+
   1. Click Desktop
   2. Click the menu button
   3. Click Control Panel
   4. Click Indexing manager under Indexing
   5. Check the indexes you want to rebuild
   6. Click Rebuild

Rebuilding an index should not take very long. If it takes longer, something is probably wrong