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Information about the content of your site is stored in indexes. You need to have the content of your site indexed in order for it to be searchable using the Smart search module.
There are four types of indexes, click the link to learn about how indexes of the type can be configured:
| • | Documents index - stores information about the content of documents in your content tree |
| • | Forums index - stores information about the content of discussion forums on your site |
| • | Custom table index - stores information about data stored in custom tables |
| • | User index - stores information about website users |
The following example shows the general procedure how an index can be created and what options you have when creating it. The procedure is applicable for both document and forum indexes, while differences between the two are noted in the text.
1. Go to Site Manager -> Administration -> Smart search and click the 
New index link. The New search index dialog will be displayed. You will be asked to enter the following details:
| • | Display name: name of the index displayed in the administration interface |
| • | Code name: name of the index used in website code (the fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters long, the directory name must be less than 241 characters long) |
| • | Analyzer type: type of analyzer that will be used when indexing the content of your site, the following types are available: |
| • | Standard - grammar-based analyzer (stop-words, shortcuts, ...), very efficient for English, but may not produce satisfactory results with other languages |
| • | Simple - divides text at non-letter characters |
| • | Stop - contains a collection of stop-words at which it divides the text |
| • | White space - divides text at whitespace characters |
| • | Keyword - tokenizes the entire stream as a single token; this is useful for data like zip codes, ids, and some product names |
| • | Stop words - dictionary containing words which will be omitted from indexing (e.g. 'and', 'or', ...) when a Stop or Standard analyzer is used; the dictionaries are stored in ~\App_Data\CMSModules\SmartSearch\_StopWords |
| • | Index type: type of content to be indexed |
| • | Documents - indexes content of documents in the content tree |
| • | Forums - indexes content of discussion forums |
| • | Users - indexes details about system users - fields of the CMS_User system table |
| • | Custom tables - indexes records in custom tables |
| • | Assign index to site <sitename> - if checked, the index will be assigned to the site whose name is displayed |
Click OK.
2. You will be redirected to the index's editing interface. The General tab, which you will be redirected to, shows the same details that you just entered. Notice the info box on the right, which shows general information about the index.
The following two actions can also be performed on this tab, but it would make no sense to perform them at this stage of creating a new index:
| • |  Rebuild - deletes the original index and the specified content gets indexed again; clicking this action button does not always guarantee that the index will be rebuilt immediately, the process may be delayed if e.g. another index is already being rebuilt or if the rebuilding tasks are configured to be handled by the scheduler; the index is automatically optimized after a successful rebuild |
| • |  Optimize - de-fragments the index, which results in better search performance, particularly in the case of large indexes |
3. Switch to the Index tab. This is where you define what document content, forums, custom tables or users will be indexed. The content of this tab depends on the type of index that you are creating. Detailed information about defining index content is given in Defining document index content, Defining forums index content, Defining custom tables index content and Defining user index content.
4. Now switch to the Sites tab. Make sure that the index is assigned to the appropriate website. You may also want to optionally assign the index to some other site in order to have multi-site search results.
5. Switch to the Cultures tab (only available for document indexes). This is where you can choose which cultural versions of the site will be indexed by this index. Choose the cultural version(s) that you want to be indexed. If you have a multi-site index, you can select the cultures separately for each site chosen by the Select site drop-down list.
6. Finally, go back to the General tab and choose to Rebuild the index. This needs to be done only for the first time. Any further changes made to the site will be indexed automatically.
Page url: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/5_5r2/devguide/index.html?smart_search_creating_index.htm
