Indexing in Edge Delivery Services

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What is Indexing ?

Indexing is the process of organizing data in a way that makes it faster and more efficient to search, retrieve, and access specific information. In the context of databases, search engines, or content management systems like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), indexing involves creating a structured data representation that allows queries to execute more quickly.

In AEM EDS it keeps this indexes in a spreadsheet and offers access to it using JSON.In this you can index entire site you can index specific section of your website or you can add what kind of property you wanted to index from a page.You can also index particular section from a page as well

Steps to perform indexing

• Create a excel file with the name “query-index.xlsx” in root folder of your project.



• Inside this file crate a sheet with the name "raw_index"



• Next in that sheet add path as a header and you can add the other properties that you wanted to index like suppose you wanted to index on the basis of metadata then you add title it will pick og:title and similarly you can add response header as well.



Following highlighted properties can be added as a header in the document and the properties metioned on the right hand side will be picked from the meta tags.And these are not limited to the above mentioned properties whatever property you add in meta tag that can be added in the query-index excel file and it will pick that property from meta tag.

“Last modified” is the only property that is picked from response header.



• Now the content will only index when you publish the page.I have page named test under the cms folder I will publish that page as soon I publish it will reflect under the query-index excel and also it has picked the metadata property available in the page as you can see in the below image.

If you do not want to index a particular page then for that you need to create metadata block and in that you need to add the property as "Robots" and value as "noindex".

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