Sitecore: All Indexes are not listed in Index manager

Question

I'm using Solr for all indexing, so I created all the indexes in solr and enabled all required solr related configs, but when I came to build the index from index manager , I can only see

sitecore_core_index
sitecore_master_index
sitecore_marketing_asset_index_master
sitecore_marketingdefinitions_master
sitecore_testing_index
sitecore_suggested_test_index
sitecore_fxm_master_index
sitecore_list_index
social_messages_master

I built only these. And if I try to search from web data base, i am not getting any results.

In the default sitecore installation I can see 16 indexes folder inside Data=>Indexes, so where are the rest? How to Build those?

Or is this what is to be expected?

Answer 1

Check if there is Sitecore.ContentSearch.Solr.Index.Web.config in your App_Config/Include folder. It must NOT have .example extension after the name above. This file contains definition of sitecore_web_index.

You can check http://localhost/sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx on the default sitecore installation to see which config files contain other missing indexes (there will be patch:source information for every node). Then you can check if those files are included in your solution.

Answer 2

I noticed that in Sitecore 8 instances migrated from 6.X versions the old Lucene indexes (which have not been migrated to the new Lucene format) are not listed in the Rebuild Index section from the Developer tab. In order to see the indexes you need to go to Control Panel > Rebuilt Search Indexes