Project re-index

Question

Hi,

I was looking through previous questions and came across re-indexing projects.

I presume you would re-index a project the same reason you would for the whole of JIRA when making configuration changes i.e. updating add ons etc.

I just wanted to ask if re-indexing projects should be done often? And is there any other reasons to why you would re-index a project?

Thanks,

Lauren

David Dunaway · Answer

Is there a way to force a  re-indexing to occur via the REST API? I see that you can do a "api/2/reindex/request" .

My use case is when we failover to our standby JIRA instances and need to re-index, can I simply issue that API call and force a re-indexing to occur, or would I need to do someother manual task to force a re-index (ie: from the UI as an adminstrative user).

Thanks!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

I tend to use it when you're messing with the field contexts that are related to single projects mostly.

Boris Georgiev [Appfire] · Answer

Normally you should not need to re-index anything as JIRA handles index updates on every issue operation. The articles below provide some details on indexing and when you should manually trigger re-index:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/re-indexing-after-major-configuration-changes-198246923.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/search-indexing-185729671.html