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SRMO - Cannot delete Index Category after System Copy

neil_hoff
Participant
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Hi,

I am trying to delete incorrect Index Categories using t-code SRMO after a system copy (restore db from backup) from our production system to our sandbox system.

When I select the Index Category and click on the "Delete Category" button I get this message:

Error during deletion of language 'EN'. Search

engine result '3147'

When I click on the Help button I get this:

Error during deletion of language 'EN'. Search engine result '3147'

Message no. SRET148

Diagnosis

When the index category is deleted, all languages, and consequently all physical indices on the search server (RFC server) are deleted.

If a physical index could not be deleted, the index category is not deleted or set to inactive either. This is to prevent the index from staying on the search server without R/3 inforamtion.

Procedure

Firstly clean up all languages / indexes for which this information appears.

Use the function to delete an index without R/3 information (if such an index exists) and / or the function to delete the language without an index from the R/3 System.

You can then call the function 'Delete index category' again.

Any ideas on what function they are talking about in the second to last paragraph: "function to delete an index without r/3 information"?

Thank you,

Neil

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neil_hoff
Participant
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Never mind I figured it out.

You have to first select the item in the "Created Indices" table and then choose "Delete Language".

Then you can click on "Delete Category" to delete the index.

carla_seehausen
Explorer
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I have exactly the same problem, only that the index category still can't be deleted even after I deleted the languages first. I still get the error message '3147'. It says that there was an error deleting the languages. As procedure it is suggested (as before) to first delete the languages and then again the index category. But the languages are no longer displayed in the index category.

Does anybody know how I should proceed in order to delete the old invalid index and to create a new one for indexing with the new TREX?

Former Member
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Hello Carla Seehausen,

I am facing the same issue.

Were you able to solve. If yes, how?

-regards

Nitin Soni

carla_seehausen
Explorer
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Hi Nitin,

it has been quite a long while ago that I was working on that issue. If I remember correctly, we have succeded in end by systematically deactivating the entire TREX search settings and starting from the beginning.

Best regards,

Carla