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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-32752

Option in the UI to disable all attachment content indexing in Confluence

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      NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

      For the sake of:

      • Performance
      • Troubleshooting
      • Indexing bugs

      ...It can be desirable to have an option to not index the contents of any attachments in Confluence. Our current process to disable attachment index via disabling a number of extractors is an okay workaround, but does not disable indexing of ALL attachments. Text/HTML/XML files are still indexed and cannot be disabled via the UI. This presents problems since the Lucene upgrade in Confluence 5.2 introduces new bugs can hang the entire indexing process such as:

      However, even if the bugs (and other future Lucene bugs that may arise) are fixed, one may wish to forgo attachment indexing for the sake of improving Confluence performance.

      This request is to add an option in the UI to simply disable all attachment contents. The permanent equivalent of issuing a POST request http://<confluence_url>/rest/prototype/latest/index/reindex
      with Content-Type: application/json and form data option = CONTENT_ONLY.

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          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-39462 Skip Context Extraction for large indexes when file exceeds max config setting

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-32566 Indexing job becomes stuck due to the UAX29URLEmailTokenizerImpl analyzer

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          Suggestion - CONFCLOUD-32752 Option in the UI to disable all attachment content indexing in Confluence

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