Custom Lucene Index deletion from AEM Cloud

[RR_MR]

Hi All,

I have created custom Lucene index and it works fine in local but when I try deploy the same to Cloud, this new index impacting other queries where they use cq:tags. 

<lucene-0-custom-2
jcr:primaryType="oak:QueryIndexDefinition"
async="[async,nrt]"
compatVersion="{Long}2"
evaluatePathRestrictions="{Boolean}true"
includedPaths="[/content/dam/mch/train-center/en]"
queryPaths="[/content/dam/mch/train-center/en]"
maxFieldLength="{Long}100000"
reindexCount="{Long}6"
type="lucene">
<indexRules jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
<nt:unstructured
jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
indexNodeName="{Boolean}true">
<properties jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
<dcTitle
jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
boost="{Double}2.0"
name="jcr:content/metadata/dc:title"
nodeScopeIndex="{Boolean}true"
ordered="{Boolean}true"
propertyIndex="{Boolean}true"
useInSpellcheck="{Boolean}true"
useInSuggest="{Boolean}true"/>
</properties>
</nt:unstructured>
</indexRules>
</lucene-0-custom-2>

When I try to delete the index from Cloud environment, type property setting as a "disabled" and not removing from Cloud environment.

I followed this steps to delete index but no luck

https://www.initialyze.com/insights/how-to-deploy-custom-oak-indexes-in-aem-as-a-cloud-services

Could you please help me how to delete custom index from AEM Cloud environment.

[arunpatidar]

Hi @RR_MR 
Please check https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/operations/index... 

Removing an Index

The following only applies to custom indexes. Product indexes may not be removed as they are used by AEM.

A customized index may be removed in a later version of the customer application, by removing it from the customer repository. An index which is removed from the repository is not used for queries in AEM although it might still be present in the instances for a while. There is a clean-up mechanism in place that runs periodically which cleans up older versions of indexes from the instances.

[kaikubad]

There is a acs-commons tool for managing oak index. Can check that also. 
https://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/ensure-oak-index/index.html

[kautuk_sahni]

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[RR_MR]

Hi @kautuk_sahni 

As suggested by @arunpatidar , I  followed the below article 

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/operations/index...

but no luck, custom index still exist with "type=disabled" property and not able to remove.