Creating Search Indexes¶

The search functionality will not work until the search indexes are created. These take a long time to create and also take a lot of disk space (which is why I don't include them in the Docker image). See below for how to create the indexes.

Creating them in the UI (for each work)¶

1. Start by logging into the administration UI (i.e. http://127.0.0.1:8080/admin/). The username and password for the Docker image is admin/changeme.
2. Select "Works"
3. Select the work you want to create the search indexes for
4. Click the action dropdown at the bottom of the page and select "Make search indexes"

The process make take a while, especially for large works.

Creating them from the command-line (and for all works)¶

You can also create the search indexes from the command-line. You can do this to create indexes for all works. This will take a great deal of time (like all night).

To do this, go to where the code for the project is stored and run the make_search_indexes command:

python manage.py make_search_indexes -c