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title: Event-driven catalog indexing
slug: commerce-connect-14/docs/event-driven-catalog-indexing
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createdAt: 2026-07-23T10:25:34.040Z
---

The event-driven model for indexing the catalog ensures that changes to catalog data are automatically updated in the search index. The **Indexing Processor State** section is located at **Commerce > Administration > Catalog Indexing** (version 13 and lower: **Commerce Manager** > **System Settings** > **SearchIndex**) .

The **Recover** and **Invalidate** buttons manage the system that handles event-driven indexing.

The status indicator displays the state of a queue of catalog entries that needs to be reindexed. If it is *invalid*, the system cannot distinguish between actual catalog data and the search index.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/oCrf7NxCjB3qhZUFbnb14_ec731cd-catalogindexing.png)

Click **Recover** to rebuild the full search index. When the recovery is complete, the state is changed to *valid*, and changes are automatically pushed into the index. The Recover button is disabled if the queue state is *valid*.

Click **Invalidate** to clean out the queue and start over. If the queue state is *invalid*, clicking **Invalidate** resets the state, while clicking **Recover** rebuilds the search index. If the state is recovering, the screen displays a completion percentage of the recovery operation (the information is retrieved from the search provider).

When the state is valid again, the handler displays the number of items in the queue; that is, the number of catalog entries that need to be indexed. This number can get big after a catalog import, because it reindexes the changed catalog entries in the background. In most cases, the number is small.

## Disable event-driven catalog indexing

To disable event-driven catalog indexing, add the following to appSettings.

### .net framework

```xml
<add key="episerver:DisableCatalogEventDrivenIndexing" value="true" />
```

### .NET Core

```json
{
        "Commerce": {
            "CatalogOptions": {
                "DisableCatalogEventDrivenIndexing" : "true"
                    }
           
            }
}
```