Reindex a Confluence Cloud Site manually - workaround

[#1]

One of the perceived omissions on Atlassian’s Confluence Cloud is … ability to index a site manually.

There is some progress fueled by popular demand, however…. it drags

You can, of course, contact Atlassian Support and they gladly oblige. I did so many times using the live chat with a live agent and it didn't take long.

Hackaround

However, you can trigger reindexing of your Confluence site manually… with a neat workaround.

This caught my attention the other day as I was moving a couple of spaces between our sites.

Importing a space triggers… reindexing.

The space I imported had about 25 pages. The whole process took about 5 minutes.

So I thought... what if I have a bogus Lorem Ipsum space export file ready? I'd be able to Import it, trigger reindexing, then purge the imported space whenever I need.

[Andy Gladstone]

Great hack @Kristian Klima! Thanks for sharing this! 

[Rodrigo]

No way! Writting to share my thanks too, and added to internal workarounds lol

[Robert Nadon]

Wonder if the same is true for Jira...

[Aaron Geister]

Interesting!!! Thanks for sharing.

[Markus Ernst]

Why do you need a reindexing? I'm curious.

[Kristian Klima]

@Markus Ernst 

Most of the time, for me at least, the issue manifests itself as broken search results, Databases entries not updating, linking not working properly (inserting a page link does not find the page you know it's there), and if you're using space syncing and workflow apps, the relationships might be broken.

If I remember correctly, an app vendor recommended re-index and it did fix the problem, and Atlassian support offered this as a part of the issue we're dealing with.