We have an existing ES index and now want to self-host AppSearch to manage it, but I can't find a way to tell AppSearch to use our existing index. It just creates a new index using a random Guid in the name and forces us to work with that index. According to another post here, someone suggested this…

Hi @Brian_B :wave: App Search expects the index to have certain mappings which is why using an existing index would not be possible. In a sense App Search abstracts away having to deal with the indices directly. Just out of curiosity: would it be enough for your use case to have an easy way to imp…

Set AppSearch to use an existing index

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orhantoy (Orhan Toy) November 2, 2019, 1:16pm 3

This post is a duplicate of Specify the index for App Search to use - closing this.

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Set AppSearch to use an existing index

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