Removing URIs from the index

To prevent users from searching documents in a collection, you can remove the URIs for those documents from the index.

About this task

When you remove a URI from the index, you do not remove it from the crawl space. The next time that the crawler crawls the document, or the next time the index is rebuilt from the document cache, the URI is built into the index and becomes available for searching again. To remove a URI from the crawl space, you must update the crawling rules to exclude the document, and then stop and restart the crawler.

Procedure

To remove URIs for specific documents from the index:

On the Collections view, expand the collection that you want to configure. In the Parse and Index pane, click Configure > URIs to remove from the index.
On the Remove URIs from the Index page, type the URIs (or the URI patterns) that you want to remove from the index.
URIs are case-sensitive. For example:
```
http://domain.org/hr/*
db2://knowledgeManagement/ROI*
cm://enterprise/finance*
```