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MongoDB Ex

MongoDB Extended - Advanced MongoDB operations, including support for filters, bulk operations, full update JSON support and more.

Search Index → Create

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Summary

Create a MongoDB search index

Inputs

  • collection (required) — MongoDB Collection
  • indexNameRequired (required) — The name of the search index
  • indexDefinition (required) — The search index definition
  • indexType (required) — The search index index type

Output shape

an array of objects each containing the created index name

On success each item returns {indexName: <name>}; with continueOnFail errors are returned as {error: message}

Examples

Example 1: Create a vector search index on the 'posts' collection

Collection: posts, Index Name: posts_vector, Index Definition: {"type":"vectorSearch","definition":{}}, Index Type: vectorSearch

Example 2: Create a text search index on the 'users' collection

Collection: users, Index Name: users_text, Index Definition: {"type":"search","definition":{}}, Index Type: search

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