Indexing

Updated
View as text
Open in Confluence
Open in ChatGPT Open in Claude

Indexing happens in the background, not the moment you save a page. Until indexing reaches a page, it has no Capable field values. That means it won't match a search for a value, and it won't come back as empty either.

Confluence administration, Capable app settings, Indexing tab, showing a Content indexing card with 4,086 of 4,090 pages indexed at 100 percent and the date and time indexing last ran.
Indexing coverage in the Capable settings under Confluence administration. Until indexing reaches a page, Capable filters and columns have nothing to match on it.

So if a search looks wrong, check index coverage first.

#In this section

How indexing worksNothing Capable knows about a page is searchable until indexing has reached it.Index coverageHow to see what has been indexed, and force the rest.

Indexed, then searchable. In that order.