Force reindex

Aspen Discovery reindexes records regularly overnight. If you make a change to a record and you want Aspen Discovery to reindex it as soon as possible, you can force Aspen Discovery to add a record to the reindexing queue.

  1. While logged in to a staff account in Aspen Discovery, go to the record and click on “Staff View”

Find the bibliographic record in Aspen Discovery and go to Staff View

  1. In the “Staff View” panel, click on “Force Reindex”

Click on "Force Reindex"

  1. You should see a pop-up message saying “This title will be indexed again shortly”

Clear the dialog box

  1. Wait several minutes, then go back to the record and force a page load by typing CTRL-SHIFT-R. The changes to the bibliographic record should now be reflected in Aspen Discovery. Please note that depending on the server load, it may take as long as 15 minutes for a record to be reindexed.

Reload the page