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title: "How to trigger content re-indexing and view the status of indexing"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/SUPPORT/89131553/How%20to%20trigger%20content%20re-indexing%20and%20view%20the%20status%20of%20indexing"
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<span style="color: #091e42">This describes how to trigger content re-indexing and view the status of the indexing in the Confluence application.</span>

## Instructions

There are two ways in which you will be able to trigger the content re-indexing using **<span style="color: #172b4d">prototype rest api</span>**<span style="color: #172b4d"> and using </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**UI actions**</span>

|  | **Description** | **Use** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **<span style="color: #172b4d">Prototype Rest API</span>** | <span style="color: #172b4d">start re-index</span> | ```
-a renderRequest --request rest/prototype/1/index/reindex --requestType post --type JSON  
``` |
| <span style="color: #172b4d">view status</span> | ```
-a renderRequest --request rest/prototype/1/index/reindex
``` |
| <span style="color: #172b4d">**UI actions**</span> | <span style="color: #172b4d">start re-index</span> | ```
-a renderRequest --request admin/reindextaskprogress.action   
``` |
|  | <span style="color: #172b4d">view status</span> | ```
-a renderRequest --request json/reindextaskprogress.action
``` |