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The Episerver full-text search service (FTS Service) configuration is found in the EPiServer.Search.IndexingService section of web.config and is accessible through properties on EPiServer.Search.IndexingService.IndexingServiceSettings. Most of the values have defaults and are not required. The following  tables show section and element names and their defaults.

IndexingServiceSection

AttributeTypeDefault ValueComment
maxDisplayTextLength int 500 Maximum number of characters allowed in the DisplayText field. If DisplayText field exceeds this length, search truncates the content and adds the remaining part to the Metadata field.
maxHitsForReferenceSearch int 10000 Maximum number of search results to return internally within the service when you update referenced documents or virtual path nodes.
maxHitsForSearchResults int 1000 Maximum number of search results to return internally within the service when you prepare a search response.

ElementTypeComment
clients ClientCollection A collection of client elements that define which clients can communicate with the indexing service.
namedIndexes NamedIndexesElement Contains the collection of indexes and defines the default index to be used.

Client element

Each client element contains an IP address or address range from which clients are allowed to connect to the indexing service.
NameTypeDefault ValueComment
allowLocal bool false Indicates whether the service should accept connection from all local interfaces.
description string   Description associated with this client.
ipAddress string   IPv4 address or range used to authenticate the client.
ip6Address string   IPv6 address or range used to authenticate the client.
name string Required key attribute,
no default value
Name of the configured client that have access to this service.
readonly bool Required, no default value Indicates whether the client can modify the index.

NamedIndexes element

The namedIndexes element acts as a container for the index collection. This element only has the attribute defaultIndex, which should reference one of the indexes in the indexes collection. The referenced index is the one that is used if no specific index is requested.

NameTypeDefault ValueComment
defaultIndex string Required, no default value Name of the configured named index that is the default index to use.
 
ElementTypeComment
indexes NamedIndexCollection Container for a collection of NamedIndex elements.

NamedIndex element

Each index element defines settings for one index hosted by the indexing serivice.

NameTypeDefault ValueComment
directoryPath string Required key attribute,
no default value
Path where the associated Lucene index files are stored.
name string Required key attribute,
no default value
Name of the index.
pendingDeletesOptimizeThreshold int 100 The number of delete operations that occur before the index is optimized.
readonly bool false Indicates whether the named index can be modified.
aclFieldInResponse bool true Indicates whether the contents of the respective fields are included in the search response.
authorFieldInResponse
categoriesFieldInResponse
createdFieldInResponse
cultureFieldInResponse
displayTextFieldInResponse
idFieldInResponse
itemStatusFieldInResponse
metadataFieldInResponse false
modifiedFieldInResponse true
publicationEndFieldInResponse
publicationStartFieldInResponse
referenceIdFieldInResponse
titleFieldInResponse
typeFieldInResponse
uriFieldInResponse
virtualPathFieldInResponse

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Last updated: Sep 21, 2015

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