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Use of ignore Fields from Full-Text Index Rules that exclude all fields starting with "$" are irreversible

After pressing the "Ignore $*" button on the "Full-Text Index Rules" screen in the application properties in Designer to disable all fields starting with “$", attempting to revert this by pressing the "Enable $*" button does not restore the original state.

To undo this, the Untitled form created during the disabling process must be manually deleted. This Untitled form contains the following item:

Name: $FTRules
Value: IGNORE FIELDNAME $*

Deleting this Untitled form requires finding the form containing the above item using NotesPeek to identify its Note ID, and then creating and running an agent to delete the form with that Note ID.

A troublesome example of not being able to revert is with searching within attachments. If you accidentally configure the "Ignore $*" setting in an application that creates a full-text index to allow searching attachments, $FILE will be excluded, and the full-text index will be created without it. Consequently, you will not be able to search for strings within the attachments. Even if you try to revert this by configuring the "Enable $*" setting and recreating the full-text index, the attachments will not be included in the full-text index and will not be searchable.

Please make the "Enable $*" button functional so that the original state can be restored without performing the manual steps mentioned earlier.

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    • Guest
      May 14, 2025

      This has been reported as a problem (SPR #MNIAD4NGQ7) but was determined to be an enhancement request, so I've posted the idea here.