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Created on Dec 11, 2014

Missing definition of "Indexable Types" with impact if selected or not on results on C10 Search driven by INDEXING

Hi L3 + PM,

can you please improve documentation on what it mean to select certain "Indexable Types" .
It is critical to understand if you would select an indexing typ or not as we already unfortunatedly went through a quite cumbersome learning curve to understand that indexing is best first defined with the ENDscope in terms of content, and then run bit by bit (foder by folder) not to endup with an u

Please note that when trying to identify if we NEED / Might WANT/ Don´t NEED a certain "Indexable Types" we did not get to any understanding of the following :
"Data movement", "Archived Output" ,"Content reference" ,"Planning application", "Part" .
For none of the types we could get to any clear definition . For the rest of the types we were makeing the decision "include VS not include" in Indexing based on assumptions which is risky ..

Please note that we have worked closely with L2 and got to the understanding that the indexing scope is critical to be able to use the index driven Search . We had already a few PMRs ( e.g. 72130,100,838 - June 2014, 74223,100,838 Oct 2014) due to the apparently fragile indexing in terms of load / scope.

Therefore it is critical to know before you launch all the indexing tasks the right definition to avoid having to rerun all initial indexing ...