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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Search portlet does not automatically reindex when new user is added

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Brett Ripley

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The intended behavior of the Liferay Portal is to automatically reindex when any user is updated or created. Sometimes, for some reason, this does not happen. This article looks at a portal property that functions as a potentially helpful workaround to this issue.

Resolution

If reindexing does not solve the issue of searching the index, one potential solution is to search from the database. It will cause a slight performance hit, but in most environments it is sufficient (and much better than reindexing after every change to a user). To do this, set within the portal-ext.properties: 
users.search.with.index=false
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