Posts in a new forum not showing up in search

[BirdOPrey5]

I noticed today that posts in my newest forum (a subforum of another forum) aren't showing up when I look at all posts from a certain user. I know they posted in this forum several times but when I look at their past posts in search none of them show up.

Anything I should check- I checked forum manager and didn't see any settings to disable the search or such.

[JamesC70]

AdminCP -> Forums & Moderators -> Forum Manager -> affected forum. What's the setting for "Index New Posts in Search Engine"?

[BirdOPrey5]

Damn... that was it... I know I looked for that before but I must have mis-read the setting... it makes sense now though, I copied the permissions from my "test" forum which isn't in the search index...

Thanks again.

Any idea if old posts will get indexed now or if I have to run a task manually to do this?

[JamesC70]

Pretty sure you'll have to rebuild your search index.

[Lynne]

Old posts will not suddenly get indexed. You need to rebuild your search index.

[BirdOPrey5]

Is that a major processor intensive task? Should I wait till off hours? shut off the forum?

[JamesC70]

I'd run it when the forum slows down. It's not a high-enough drain on the server to shut the forum off completely or lose sleep by running it at 3am.

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks