Clearing your Voyager Index

Administrators can partially or completely remove items from the search index. There are several methods:

Clearing Items from a Specific Location

This option removes items from a single location from the Index

  • Go to Manage Voyager > Locations

  • Click the Edit icon next to the location you'd like to clear

 

  • On the details page for that location, click Clear Index

 

  • This will clear all indexed items from that specific location, but does NOT remove thumbnails, metadata and layer files stored in the \meta folder. 

Use this method to remove the results of a specific search query.

  • Run a search

  • Click Remove results from the Index from the Admin Options panel

 

  • There are four options:

    • Remove From Index - removes selected items from the search index

    • Remove Thumbnail - clears thumbnails and preview images from the Voyager /meta folder

    • Remove Metadata - deletes XML files that are saved in the Voyager /meta folder

    • Remove Layer - wipes out any layer files associated with the item in the /meta folder

  • Click Remove to clear the items you chose 

Clearing the Entire Index 

Use this option to delete all content from the Index

 

  • Go to Manage Voyager > Index > Backup and Restore

  • Click Wipe the Search Index

  • Click Yes, Clear the Index